Terminal bust (reproduction)

Museum number:
21-34
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21210000034
Alternate number:
8-5034 (previous museum number (recataloged from))
Accession number:
Acc.193
Description:
Cast of terminal bust of Oceanus. The name does not altogether fit the bust, which personifies a southern sea of vineclad shores. From a marble found near Pozzuoli, Italy. Vatican Museum. Sold to Clement XIV by Gavin Familton. Compare Friederichs-Wolters 1544. The horns resemble those of river gods.
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) and Oceanus
Accession date:
1905
Department:
Casts and molds
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Terminal bust (reproduction), accession number 21-34, described as Cast of terminal bust of Oceanus. The name does not altogether fit the bust, which personifies a southern sea of vineclad shores. From a marble found near Pozzuoli, Italy. Vatican Museum. Sold to Clement XIV by Gavin Familton. Compare Friederichs-Wolters 1544. The horns resemble those of river gods.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Terminal bust (reproduction), accession number 21-34, described as Cast of terminal bust of Oceanus. The name does not altogether fit the bust, which personifies a southern sea of vineclad shores. From a marble found near Pozzuoli, Italy. Vatican Museum. Sold to Clement XIV by Gavin Familton. Compare Friederichs-Wolters 1544. The horns resemble those of river gods.

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