Sunday, 4 December 2016

Bust of Cicero in The Long Room Trinity College Library, Dublin.



A Marble Bust Representing Cicero.

in The Long Room, Trinity College Library, Dublin.

Peter Scheemakers.

signed P.S. Ft.







































Photographed by the Author, 6 October 2016


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Bust statue of Julius Caesar (wrongly titled Cicero) with short hair, wearing a fringed scarf, bust on a pedestal, almost seen in profile to right; from a set of twelve plates showing antique busts after drawings by Rubens.  1638 Engraving



After a drawing by Rubens.

Bust of Julius Caesar wrongly believed to represent Cicero.

From Rubens Antiquities Collection.

Engraving by Jan Witdoeck.

339 x 232 mm

1638.

from the series Twelve Famous Greek and Roman Men.

Image courtesy British Museum.

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Head and shoulders from a sculpted bust, directed to left, wearing a fringed toga with a circular clasp at the right shoulder.  Mezzotint



Cicero.

After Rubens.

Anon Mezzotint.

202 x 150 mm.

c1670 - 1730?

Image courtesy British Museum.
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Bronze bust of 'Cicero'.

Massimiliano Soldani Benzi (1656 - 1740).

after the ancient Ufizzi bust. (see below).

From a series of twelve heads made for the Liechtenstein princely palaces.

Height 60 cms.

Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna.
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Cicero. Marble. 1st century BCE. Florence, Gallery of Uffizi




Cicero. Marble. 1st century BCE. Florence, Gallery of Uffizi







Marble Bust of 'Cicero'.

Ufizzi Gallery.

Florence.
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Philip Dormer Stanhope, Lord Chesterfield with his bust of 'Cicero'.

after William Hoare.

Mezzotint.

John Brookes.

496 x 348 mm.

c.1748

Image © National Portrait Gallery, London.

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Lead Bust of Cicero probably by John Cheere.

at Heywood - Garden designed by Lutyens

Plaster bust.

Stourhead.

National Trust.

Probably by John Cheere or a cast from a model by him.

With the Typical Cheere Socle.

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A Wedgwood Cicero.





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For the Wedgwood busts see -

The Wedgwood Handbook: A Manual for Collectors. Treating of the Marks ...

By Eliza Meteyard, 1875 - available on Google books

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