Plaster cast

Museum number:
21-111
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
8-5111 (previous museum number (recataloged from))
Accession number:
Acc.109 and Acc.193
Description:
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.
Donor:
Alfred Emerson and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Verbatim coll. place:
Cast Works of Marburg, Prussian Saxony
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Object type:
archaeology
Accession date:
1903 and 1905
Department:
Casts and molds
Images:
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.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with 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.Documentation associated with 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.Documentation associated with 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.Documentation associated with 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.

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