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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1895.46.C
People
After Phidias, Greek (active 5th century BCE)
Title
Detail of the East Frieze of the Parthenon: Priest and child with peplos; 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/189124

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Plaster cast
Dimensions
106.05 x 10.16 cm (41 3/4 x 4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: upper right: 18
  • inscription: back, yellow chalk: 56 or 95

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Purchased from the British Museum, 1895

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Museum Purchase
Accession Year
1895
Object Number
1895.46.C
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
This slab is equivalent to Michaelis numbers: V, 33-35.
Commentary
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).

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: V, 33-35
  • 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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