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Edwards, Ernest
English (1837-1903)

PUBLISHED TITLE: Thorwaldsen's Statue of Byron
SERIES TITLE: "The Stereoscopic Cabinet, or Monthly Packet of Pictures for the Stereoscope", Lovell Reeve Publ., February, 1860, No.IV

1860
PUBLISHER: Reeve, Lovell
albumen print
7.1 x 7.1 cm. each on 8.5 x 17.4 cm. mount
Museum Purchase
86:0947:0010

This image was part of GEH's 2001 submission to AMICO (Art Museum Image Consortium).//

INSCRIPTION: verso-(printed label) "Thorwaldsen's Statue of Byron. Our stereograph represents the statue of Byron by the famous Danish sculptor, Thorwaldsen, as it stands in the Library of the Trinity College, Cambridge. It was intended for the Poet's Corner, in Westminster Abbey but was refused admittance on the ground of much of the poet's writing being of an immoral, if not atheistical, tendency"

NOTES: Catalogued 12/96, MAP. See 86:947:13 for library of Trinity College, where this statue is.

SUBJECT: reproduction, statue / Thorwaldsen's Byron

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