Bath, Art and Architecture

Edward Chapman Bird (1715 - 92), Marble Merchant. A Pair of very fine Marble Busts at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge by Giovanni Antonio Cybei (1706 - 1784). The Stone Merchants of Westminster in the 18th Century.

  Some notes on the busts and the importing of marble from Carrara in the 18th Century. This post to act as an aide memoire - the subjects w...