Philadelphia Museum of Art - Collections Object : Marble Head of Athena

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Marble Head of Athena
Plate XLIX from Richard Payne Knight, Specimens of antient sculpture, Ægyptian, Etruscan, Greek and Roman, selected from different collections in Great Britain (London: Bensley, 1809)

Made in London, England, Europe

1809

John Samuel Agar, British, 1773 - 1858. After an Antique Sculpture.

Engraving and stipple, printed in brown ink
Plate: 10 7/8 x 8 7/8 inches (27.7 x 22.6 cm) Sheet: 14 3/4 x 10 7/8 inches (37.5 x 27.7 cm)

Currently not on view

1985-52-17045

The Muriel and Philip Berman Gift, acquired from the John S. Phillips bequest of 1876 to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, with funds contributed by Muriel and Philip Berman, gifts (by exchange) of Lisa Norris Elkins, Bryant W. Langston, Samuel S. White 3rd and Vera White, with additional funds contributed by John Howard McFadden, Jr., Thomas Skelton Harrison, and the Philip H. and A.S.W. Rosenbach Foundation, 1985

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