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Figure of a Mourning Woman
John Michael Rysbrack, 1740
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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Title of artwork, date
Figure of a Mourning Woman, 1740
Date supported
1969
Medium and material
Terracotta
Dimensions
46 x 36 cm
Grant
1000
Total cost
8500
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