LOT DETAILS

Materials:

marble

Measurements:

17.95 in. (45.60 cm.) (height)

Description:

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Markings:

inscribed 'CHARLES TOWNLEY.' to the front and also extensively in ancient Greek beneath (to know the past enables a person to understand correctly the present); also signed to the side and back 'Nollekens Ft. 1807.'

Condition:

very minor chips

Exhibited:

Formerly on loan to Towneley Hall Art Gallery, Burnley, Lancashire, 1926 to 2007.

Literature:

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:. A. Dawson, Portrait sculpture - A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection, London, 1999.

Provenance:

Edward Towneley (died 1807), brother Charles Townley, and thence by descent.