Figure of a Mourning Woman
Artist: John Michael Rysbrack (1694 - 1770)
Location: Fitzwilliam Museum
Date: 1740
Materials: terracotta
Dimensions: 46 x 36 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £1,000 (Total: £8,500)
Vendor: Cyril Humphris
Review number: 2355 (1969)
Provenance:
Cyril Humphris
Description:
Study for the monument to dramatist and Poet Laureate, Nicholas Rowe and his daughter, Charlotte Fane, erected in Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey. Commissioned by Rowe's widow and it is she who is represented weeping with an open folio on her knee, and another closed under her foot. Neo-Classical drapery.
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