FDA-A.175-2013
Parts
Object number
FDA-A.175-2013
Object type
Identification
Title
Freize from the Mausoleum of Halikarnassos
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Halikarnassos plaster relief panel, south side
Comments
This is one of two similar casts of freizes from the Mausoleum of Halikarnassos (Turkey; destroyed by multiple earthquakes) showing a battle between Greeks and the Amazons. The original individual sections of the friezes are in the British Museum.
"[The original works] became the first important Greek reliefs to arrive in the British Museum since the Parthenon frieze. There was some uncertainty as to exactly where they should best be exhibited in the existing scheme of stylistic excellence, and they remained packed away. Meanwhile the Prussian Ambassador in London requested that casts might be taken in 1848 for display in Berlin, and a year later, the Museum’s in-house plaster specialist Inglis, began to make moulds. 12 sets were produced, and one was retained for Canning. Recipients included the Royal Collection of Art. Eton was not forgotten. In 1853 the College paid for the ‘carriage of marbles’ and spent three times that sum, £12 10 0, ‘for fixing friezes to the Provost’s Entrance Hall’. They have remained there ever since, following an order slightly different from the originals in the British Museum."
[Research notes by Louisa Connor, c.2000]
This work is made up of seven individual sections of freize.
"[The original works] became the first important Greek reliefs to arrive in the British Museum since the Parthenon frieze. There was some uncertainty as to exactly where they should best be exhibited in the existing scheme of stylistic excellence, and they remained packed away. Meanwhile the Prussian Ambassador in London requested that casts might be taken in 1848 for display in Berlin, and a year later, the Museum’s in-house plaster specialist Inglis, began to make moulds. 12 sets were produced, and one was retained for Canning. Recipients included the Royal Collection of Art. Eton was not forgotten. In 1853 the College paid for the ‘carriage of marbles’ and spent three times that sum, £12 10 0, ‘for fixing friezes to the Provost’s Entrance Hall’. They have remained there ever since, following an order slightly different from the originals in the British Museum."
[Research notes by Louisa Connor, c.2000]
This work is made up of seven individual sections of freize.
Description
Dimensions
height (actual size): 900mm
length (actual size): 7390mm
length (actual size): 7390mm
Material
plaster
Materials & techniques note
painted plaster
Production
Date
pre-1852
History and association
Associated object
FDA-A.106-2010 (one of a pair)
