Monday 5 December 2016

Bust of Socrates in the Long Room, Trinity College Library, Dublin



The Marble Bust of Socrates 
in the Long Room, 
Trinity College Library, 
Dublin.

Unsigned - almost certainly from the workshop of Louis Francois Roubiliac
























Greek bust of Socrates 
Capitoline Museum
 Rome

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Bust of Socrates 
Capitoline Museum

 Rome
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Head of Socrates, slightly turned to right; after antique statue.  1671  Etching


Socrates
Etching
from Paradigmata Graphices Variorum Artificum
150 x 110 mm.
1671
British Museum
see -
http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3052395&partId=1&searchText=socrates&page=1


Portrait of Socrates, head in profile to right, after an antique cameo; illustration to 'Gemmae antiquae caelatae', or 'Pierres antiques gravées' (Amsterdam: Bernard Picart, 1724).  1719<br/>Etching



Portrait of Socrates,
Engraving.
Bernard Picart 
head in profile to right, after an antique cameo; illustration to 'Gemmae antiquae caelatae', or 'Pierres antiques gravées' (Amsterdam: Bernard Picart, 1724). 1719
Etching
268 x 186 mm

© The Trustees of the British Museum


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Socrates
after Rubens
Engraving by Lucas Vorsterman
1638
see -
http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=Rubens

Socrates; a marble bust of the philosopher in three-quarter profile to left, placed in a niche.    Mezzotint

Socrates after Rubens
Mezzotint
Paulus Pontius
340 x 238 mm.
© The Trustees of the British Museum 

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A prison cell with on the left the seated Socrates taking the cup from the hands of a young man; his friends and followers attend the scene; on the right, a grieving young man; illustration to the 1754 edition of Charles Rollin's 'The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes, and Persians' (first published in London: Knapton, 1738-1740); finished state, before title and publication detail.  c.1738/40  Etching with some engraving

Death of Socrates 
Engraving
by Hubert Gravelot
143 x 88 mm.

Illustration to the 1754 edition of Charles Rollin's 'The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes, and Persians' (first published in London: Knapton, 1738-1740.

© The Trustees of the British Museum 

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Portrait of Socrates after an antique sculpture in the Capitoline Museums at Rome, bust-length nearly in profile to right, after an intermediary drawing by Day, illustration to an unidentified publication.  1796<br/>Stipple and etching


Socrates
Mezzotint after Day
280 x217 mm

Marino Bovi
London
1796

© The Trustees of the British Museum 

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