Artist: Albertoni, Giovanni Giuseppe, sculptor - Italian sculptor, 1806-1887; Date(s): 1845; Classification(s): sculpture, figure, carving, white marble, carved; Acquisition: bequeathed by Skilbeck Maude, George, 1844, Bequeathed by George Skillbeck Maude [M.1-1845]
Description: White marble, carved in the round. The figure is draped in a robe of many folds, leaning with her left hand upon a tree stump. Her head is lowered and looking slightly to her right, and her right forefinger is laid against her cheek. Her hair is drawn back into a knot, with a garland of rose-buds round her head. She wears sandles. Signed and dated on na bole of the tree stump 'ALBERTONI ROMA/1845'
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