1895.46.B: Detail of the East Frieze of the Parthenon: Girls with Stools; after 5th century BC original
Architectural Elements
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1895.46.B
- People
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After Phidias, Greek (active 5th century BCE)
- Title
- Detail of the East Frieze of the Parthenon: Girls with Stools; after 5th century BC original
- Classification
- Architectural Elements
- Work Type
- architectural element
- Date
- 19th century
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
- Culture
- British, English
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/187344
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Plaster
- Technique
- Cast
- Dimensions
- 101.6 x 96.52 x 10.16 cm (40 x 38 x 4 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: back, yellow chalk: S5
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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According to correspondence in Charles Herbert Moore’s files for 17 April 1895, the following plaster casts of the Parthenon frieze were ordered from the British Museum for the new Fogg Museum:
30 ft. in length of South frieze (Michaelis’ nos. XXXV to XLII)
22 ft. in length of the North frieze (Michaelis’ nos. V-X)
Nos. IV and V (Michaelis) of the East frieze
The request to the British Museum was passed along to Domenico Brucciani who, beginning in 1857, acted as the British Museum’s formatore, and in addition, conducted a cast business of his own. After Brucciani’s death in 1880, his firm, Brucciani & Co., continued to supply casts for the British Museum. The casts of the Parthenon frieze obtained by the Fogg in 1895 were made by Brucciani & Co. (Harvard University Art Museum archives : Brucciani correspondence 9 May 1895, 13 May 1895 and 10 July 1895).
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Museum Purchase
- Accession Year
- 1895
- Object Number
- 1895.46.B
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Domenico Brucciani, Catalogue of Sculpture, brochure (London, England, n.d.), pp. 11-13
- Adolf Theodor Friedrich Michaelis, Der Parthenon, Breitkopf und Hartel (Leipzig, Germany, 1870 - 1871), Michaelis: slab V; figs. 31-32
- Ian Jenkins, "Acquisition and Supply of the Casts of the Parthenon Sculptures 1835-1939", Annual of the British School at Athens (1990), vol. 85, pp. 89-114
Verification Level
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