FDA-Sc.101-2020
Parts
Object number
FDA-Sc.101-2020
Object type
Identification
Title
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Terracotta coloured plaster bust of a woman with her hair in ringlets either side of her face
Comments
Posthumous bust; pendant to FDA-Sc.100-2020.
Description
Content (person)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) (Sitter)
Dimensions
height: 560mm
Material
plaster
Production
Person
Story, William Wetmore (1819-1895) (Sculptor)
Date
c.1864
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Collection of the Keats-Shelley Memorial House in Rome: from whom purchased by Eton College
References
• Kelley, P. & Coley, B. (eds.), The Browning Collections: A Reconstruction, 1984 (p. 459, no. F54)
• Ormond, R., Early Victorian Portraits, 1974 (p. 70)
• Ormond, R., Early Victorian Portraits, 1974 (p. 70)
