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Joseph Nollekens, 1737–1823, British, Venus, 1770s
- Title:
Venus
- Date:
- 1770s
- Medium:
- Terracotta
- Dimensions:
- Overall: 8 1/8 × 2 3/4 inches (20.6 × 7 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.17
- Classification:
- Sculptures
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Subject Terms:
- cloak | goddess | Greek | headdress | nude | religious and mythological subject | woman
- Associated People:
- Venus
- Access:
- Not on view
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1462
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John Kenworthy - Browne, Terracotta Models by Joseph Nollekens, Sculpture Journal, vol. 2, pp.74, 82, pl. 15, NB1 S39 (HAAS) [ORBIS]
Ingrid Roscoe, A biographical dictionary of sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2009, p. 905, no. 182, NB496 B56 2009 (YCBA) (Wall Shelf 3) Yale electronic resource also available online: Orbis [YCBA]
John Thomas Smith, Nollekens and his times, and memoirs of contemporary artists from the time of Roubiliac, Hogarth and Reynolds to that of Fuseli, Flaxman and Blake, John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, London; New York, 1920, pp. 346-7, NJ18 N73 S645 1920 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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