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- Title:
Philip Dormer Stanhope, Fourth Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773)
- Date:
- ca. 1745
- Medium:
- Plaster
- Dimensions:
- Overall: 28 x 21 x 11 inches (71.1 x 53.3 x 27.9 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Chiseled on front of base: “HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE” | A DEO ET REGE"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.26
- Classification:
- Sculptures
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Subject Terms:
- head | man | politician | politics | portrait
- Associated People:
- Stanhope, Philip Dormer, fourth earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773), politician and diplomatist
- Access:
- Not on view
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1471
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