Collection place: Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany / Collector: Alfred Emerson - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-111, described as Cast of head of a Venus (Greek: Aphrodite). From a marble in Palazzo Caetani, Rome. A cast of it was procured by Professor F. Von Duhn of Heidelberg, on the occasion of the owner’s permission to separate head and foot for the purpose of reading the Greek inscription underneath. The center of is was found missing. Donna Esilia Lovatelli, author of numerous able essays on archaeological subjects, is a scion of this princely house. Accession marks: BT 1292, R+T 1595 (variant) entered under last not bonded, duty paid $1.20.