Nymph with a Shell
Nymph with a Shell
Nymph with a Shell
Nymph with a Shell
Nymph with a Shell
Nymph with a Shell

Image credit: Trustees of the Weston Park Foundation

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A Carrara marble figure of a nymph holding a shell in her hand, seated in or by water, raised upon an oval green marble base.

The Coysevox version (1685) was based on an antique Roman marble then in the Borghese collection, which was in turn based on an older Hellenistic model.

Weston Park

Shifnal

Title

Nymph with a Shell

Date

1800–1850

Medium

carrara marble

Measurements

H 34 x W 39 x D (?) cm

Accession number

113.0016

Acquisition method

gift from Lord Bradford via the National Heritage Memorial Fund, 1986

Work type

Statue

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