Bust (reproduction)

Museum number:
21-33
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21210000033
Alternate number:
8-5033 (previous museum number (recataloged from))
Accession number:
Acc.193
Description:
Cast of bust of a Triton. It is one of the mythological sculptures with features like Alexander the Great. The original is a torso, and wears a nebris of some marine creature’s skin.
Donor:
Alfred Emerson
Collection place:
Formatore Leopoldo Malpieri, Rome, Lazio
Verbatim coll. place:
Leopoldo Malpieri, Rome
Maker or artist:
Leopoldo Malpieri
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Collection date:
ca. 1904
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Busts (sculpture)
Accession date:
1905
Department:
Casts and molds
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bust (reproduction), accession number 21-33, described as Cast of bust of a Triton. It is one of the mythological sculptures with features like Alexander the Great. The original is a torso, and wears a nebris of some marine creature’s skin.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bust (reproduction), accession number 21-33, described as Cast of bust of a Triton. It is one of the mythological sculptures with features like Alexander the Great. The original is a torso, and wears a nebris of some marine creature’s skin.

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