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This is a partial copy of an antique full-length bronze found at Pompeii in 1862 (held at the Museo Nazionale, Naples). A full-length copy cast at the Chiurazzi Foundry, Naples is in the collection of Somerville College, University of Oxford, which records that by the turn of the century, revised opinion was that the bronze represented Dionysos, although the work is still generally known as 'Narcissus'.

National Trust, Wimpole Hall

Royston

Title

Head of Narcissus

Medium

bronze

Measurements

H 20 x W 11.7 x D 13.3 cm

Accession number

207324

Acquisition method

bequeathed by Mrs Elsie Bambridge, 1976

Work type

Bust

National Trust, Wimpole Hall

Arrington, Royston, Cambridgeshire SG8 0BW England

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