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Joseph Nollekens, 1737–1823, British, Adonis, 1770s
- Title:
Adonis
- Former Title(s):
Apollo
Meleager
A figure of Adonis [1782, Royal Academy of Arts, London, exhibition catalogue]
- Date:
- 1770s
- Medium:
- Terracotta
- Dimensions:
- Overall: 8 1/8 x 2 3/4 inches (20.6 x 7 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.18
- Classification:
- Sculptures
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Subject Terms:
- Greek | man | nude | religious and mythological subject
- Associated People:
- Apollo
- Access:
- Not on view
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1463
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John Kenworthy - Browne, Terracotta Models by Joseph Nollekens, Sculpture Journal, vol. 2, pp. 74, 82, pl. 14, 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. 177, NB496 B56 2009 (YCBA) (Wall Shelf 3) Yale electronic resource also available online: Orbis [YCBA]
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