Monday 5 December 2016

Bust of Homer in the Long Room Trinity College Library, Dublin.


The Marble Bust of Homer 
in the Long Room 
Trinity College Library,
 Dublin.
Peter Scheemakers
Signed P.S. Ft.

 A version of the Farnese Homer (see engravings below).




Rembrandt. Portrait bust of Homer on a plinth directed to right, after an antique marble in the Farnesina collection; frontispiece to Alexander Pope's "The Illiad of Homer". 1715<br/>Engraving
The Farnese Homer
Engraving
George Vertue
247 x 178 mm
1715.
British Museum

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Portrait bust of Homer on a plinth directed to left, placed in a niche, after an antique marble in the Farnesina collection<br/>Etching

 The Farnese Homer
Engraving
Anon.
162 x 114 mm.
British Museum

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 Portrait bust of Homer on a plinth directed to left, lettered state with reworked plinth and shading; frontispiece to an edition of Homer's Illiad<br/>Etching and engraving
Homer
Engraving
George Vertue
123 x 74 mm.
1716
British Museum.

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 Portrait bust of Homer, after the antique in the Farnese collection in Rome (now Naples). 1715/21 Mezzotint

 The Farnese Homer
(now Nat Mus. Naples).
Engraving 
by John Faber Sr
352 x 252 mm
British Museum.





Homer
mezzotint
after Rubens
British Museum.

For Rubens and Homer see -

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=Rubens

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Head of Homer in profile to right wearing a circlet; in an oval frame; from an antique bas-relief in copper then in the collection of Richard Mead and previously in the collection of the Earl of Arundel. Etching with some engraving
The Arundel Homer
Engraving.
Bernard Baron
359 x 359
British Museum.
Portrait head of Homer directed to right, probably after an antique sculpture<br/>Etching
The Arundel Homer
Bernard Baron
Engraving
114 x 98 mm.
British Museum Portrait bust of Homer after a sculptured bust, directed to right; on a pedestal placed on a table; after a drawing by Vertue. 1725 Engraving

 Homer 
Bronze bust in the possession of Richard Meade
The Arundel Homer
Engraving by George Vertue, 
1725.
242 x 176 mm.

 British Museum

 Sophocles (formerly known as 'the Arundel Homer'); bust, with head slightly inclined forward, on a circular plinth Brush drawing in grey wash, over black chalk

 Original drawing of the Arundel Homer by George Vertue.
224 x 160 mm.
British Museum.

 Bronze head from a statue, perhaps of Sophocles. This head represents a man of middle age, with a thick beard, slightly thinning hair and a severe expression, enhanced by a deeply wrinkled brow. His hair is bound by a rolled band, like a diadem of a type usually associated with Hellenistic rulers, rather than philosophers or playwrights. The body types for statues of famous intellectuals are generally semi-draped, with perhaps only the chest bared. Both the body and the face usually exhibit signs of age.

The Arundel Homer (Sophocles).
Provenance Earl of Arundel
Richard Mead
Brownlow Cecil who donated it to the B.M.
Previously recorded as probably having been found in Istanbul. For the evidence for its discovery in a well in Smyrna, by the Revd William Petty, see Harding, Robert JD, 'The head of a certain Macedonian King' An old identity for the British Museum's 'Arundel Homer' in The British Art Journal, Volume IX No. 2, Autumn 2008.

 Acquired by the British Museum in 1760
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 Frontispiece from The Iliad of Homer
Translated By Alexander Pope
Pub. Berard Lintot
1715.

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 For the Joseph Wilton bust of Homer see my post  - 

 http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/bust-by-louis-francois-roubiliac-of.html
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Marble terminal portrait bust of the blind poet Homer, with Greek letters carved on each side.
The Townley Homer
British Museum.
see - http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details/collection_image_gallery.aspx?assetId=613448001&objectId=460092&partId=1

 Drawings 3(7)
The Townley Homer
Engraving by Bartolozzi 
after a drawing by John Brown.
425 x 330 mm.
British Museum
Portrait bust of Homer, facing front, after an antique sculpture in the collection of Charles Townley. 1796<br/>Etching

 Homer. 

 Engraved after a drawing by John Brown of the marble bust of Homer in the Townley 
Excavated in 1780.Collection, now in the British Museum.
An intact head of Homer excavated from Baia in 1780; head and shoulders directed to left, an elderly man with curly beard and hair, thick around the ears and brushed close to the head over the crown; on a ledge; in an oval set on a plaque, all within a rectangle; after a drawing by Brown from a statue in the collection of Charles Townley. Stipple with etching
Engraving of the Townley Homer 
after John Brown.
Marino Bovi
218 x 140 mm. to Plate Mark.
British Museum.


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Bust of Homer in the portrait of Johann JoachimWinckelmann
by von Marron
136 x 99 cms.
1768
Stadtschloss
Weimar

Not really relevant but included toas an example of the popularity of this bust in the 18th Century
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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

 user posted image

 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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Bust of Plato in the Long Room Trinity College Library, Dublin.


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

Unsigned but almost certainly from the workshop of Louis Francois Roubiliac.
Most telling is the detail of the clothing which is very close to that of the third versions (BarberTerracotta etc see below ) of the Roubiliac busts of Pope.

To my eye there is something very workman like about this bust it shows none of Roubiliac's usual flare. The derivation from the Rubens engraving is obvious.






The Barber Institute Terracotta of Alexander Pope
by Louis Francois Roubiliac.
















Engraving after Rubens
Plato 
Lucas Vorsterman
291 x 189 mm.

From Twelve Greek and Roman Sculptures
c.1638.
 British Museum

Herm statue of the Greek philosopher Epicure (wrongly titled Plato) with curly hair and beard, bust almost seen in profile to right; from a set of twelve plates showing antique busts after drawings by Rubens. c.1638 Engraving

Engraving after Rubens
Plato (actually Epicurus)
Lucas Vorsterman
291 x 189 mm.

From Twelve Greek and Roman Sculptures
c.1638.

Lettered in lower margin, with production details and title: "Ex marmore antiquo" and "P.P. Rubens delin. / L. Vorsterman sculp." and "Cum priuilegiis Regis Christianissimi. / Principum Belgarum et Ord. Batauiæ"
British Museum.

After an unidentified marble sculpture (probably part of Rubens' antiquities collection). A drawing by Rubens is in the Morgan Library, New York, inv.no.III,161; a preparatory drawing by Vorsterman is in the Fondation Custodia, Paris, inv.no.5949; see F. Stampfle, 'Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library', New York-Princeton, 1991, pp.156-157, cat.no.324.


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