Statue (reproduction)

Museum number:
21-56
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21210000056
Alternate number:
218 (original number, Museum), 59 (original number, Casts), and 8-5056 (previous museum number (recataloged from))
Accession number:
Acc.153 and Acc.193
Description:
Cast of Hermes of Andros (Latin: Mercury). Height m. 1.96 or about 5.5 Greek feet plus the hair. Parian marble. The composition duplicates that of a well-known statue, the so-called Antinoos (better Hermes) of the Belvedere, Vatican Museum, Rome.
Donor:
Alfred Emerson and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece
Verbatim coll. place:
Cast Works of the National Museum, Athens
Culture or time period:
Greek Classical Period (480–323 BC)
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Collection date:
ca. 1904
Person depicted:
Hermes (Greek deity)
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Statues
Accession date:
1904 and 1905
Department:
Casts and molds
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Statue (reproduction), accession number 21-56, described as Cast of Hermes of Andros (Latin: Mercury). Height m. 1.96 or about 5.5 Greek feet plus the hair. Parian marble. The composition duplicates that of a well-known statue, the so-called Antinoos (better Hermes) of the Belvedere, Vatican Museum, Rome.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Statue (reproduction), accession number 21-56, described as Cast of Hermes of Andros (Latin: Mercury). Height m. 1.96 or about 5.5 Greek feet plus the hair. Parian marble. The composition duplicates that of a well-known statue, the so-called Antinoos (better Hermes) of the Belvedere, Vatican Museum, Rome.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Statue (reproduction), accession number 21-56, described as Cast of Hermes of Andros (Latin: Mercury). Height m. 1.96 or about 5.5 Greek feet plus the hair. Parian marble. The composition duplicates that of a well-known statue, the so-called Antinoos (better Hermes) of the Belvedere, Vatican Museum, Rome.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Statue (reproduction), accession number 21-56, described as Cast of Hermes of Andros (Latin: Mercury). Height m. 1.96 or about 5.5 Greek feet plus the hair. Parian marble. The composition duplicates that of a well-known statue, the so-called Antinoos (better Hermes) of the Belvedere, Vatican Museum, Rome.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Statue (reproduction), accession number 21-56, described as Cast of Hermes of Andros (Latin: Mercury). Height m. 1.96 or about 5.5 Greek feet plus the hair. Parian marble. The composition duplicates that of a well-known statue, the so-called Antinoos (better Hermes) of the Belvedere, Vatican Museum, Rome.

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