Lord Byron
Figure
1835 (made)
1835 (made)
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Unglazed biscuit porcelain figure of Lord Byron wearing a cape. He sits on a section of a broken column, holding a book in his right hand and raising his left hand to his neck: the head is turned to the left.
Object details
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| Title | Lord Byron (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Biscuit porcelain |
| Brief description | Biscuit porcelain figure of Lord Byron made by the Royal Copenhagen Factory in 1835 after the original sculpted by Bertel Thorvaldsen. |
| Physical description | Unglazed biscuit porcelain figure of Lord Byron wearing a cape. He sits on a section of a broken column, holding a book in his right hand and raising his left hand to his neck: the head is turned to the left. |
| Gallery label | 'American and European Art and Design 1800-1900'
Thorvaldsen modelled this statue of Lord Byron in Rome in 1831. The poet is seated on a broken column, a copy of Childe Harold in his hand, with the owl of Minerva on one side and the eagle of Jupiter on the other. The original is in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge. This copy may be by David Invanovitch Jensen (1816-1902), still a student in 1835, but later a successful neo-classical sculptor in Copenhagen and Russia. Over two hundred copies were produced in the eleven years from 1835.(1987-2006) |
| Credit line | Given by Jacob Nachemsohn |
| Object history | Thorvaldsen modelled this statue of Lord Byron in Rome in 1831. The poet is seated on a broken column, a copy of Childe Harold in his hand, with the owl of Minerva on one side and the eagle of Jupiter on the other. The original is in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge. This copy may be by David Ivanovitch Jensen (1816-1902), still a student in 1835, but later a successful neo-classical sculptor in Copenhagen and Russia. Over two hundred copies were produced in the eleven years from 1835. |
| Production | This copy after a statue by Bertel Thorvaldsen may be by David Ivanovitch Jensen (1816-1902). |
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| Accession number | C.312-1915 |
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| Record created | April 4, 2000 |
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