Friday, 22 November 2024

The Roubiliac Sale Catalogue - with a list of Missing Roubiliac Busts.

 




The Roubiliac Missing Busts - The Sale Catalogue.












































 


 

Day 1.

Lot 13. Mr Wildey. Plaster Bust.

Lot 16.  A Gentleman. Plaster Bust.

Lot 44. Mrs Nightingale. Mould in plaster.

 

Described and listed as Heads

Lot 77. Lord Shannon. Terracotta Head. Possibly related to the monument at Walton on Thames.

Lot 78. Lady Shannon. Terracotta Head. Ditto see my post - http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2020/08/richard-boyle-viscount-shannon-monument.html

 Lot 79. Mrs Lyon. Terracotta Head.

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Day 2.

Lot 7. Dr Bradbury. Plaster Bust.

 Lot 12. Mr Carter Statuary. Plaster Bust.

 Lot 15, Captain McKenzies son. Plaster Bust.

 Lot 17. Mr Floyd. Plaster Bust.

 Lot 18. Mr Floyd. Plaster Bust.

 Lot 20. Mr Capel Plaster Bust or perhaps a relief. (Edward Capell {1713-81} known from engravings by Bartalozzi and at the BM).

 

Lot 76. A Gentleman. Terracotta Bust.

 Lot 81. A Gentleman Terracotta Bust.

 Lot 77. ---- Capel. Terracotta, Bust  (known from engravings by Bartalozzi and Anker Smith at the BM).

 Lot 85. Mr Nightingale and his Lady, Terracotta Busts.

 

 Day 3.

 Lot 19, Councillor Floyd. Plaster Bust.

 Lot 4. Britannia - Plaster.

 Lot 6. Mr Floyde - Plaster.

 Lot 28. Two Plaster busts of Mr Nightingale and his Lady. (The Mould for Mrs Nightingale was Lot 44, Day 1).

 Lot 29. Ditto.

The identity of these Nightingales remains to be discovered, perhaps those on Roubiliac's Nightingale monument in Westminster Abbey.

 

Lot 73. A Lady. Marble bust.

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