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The heads come from the gardens of Holkham, developed along with the Hall in the 1740s. On his stay in Italy Thomas Coke collected paintings and sculpture, including a classical Diana, echoed in Scheemaker’s Caryatids. Peter Scheemakers carved these classically inspired heads for the temple-like seat on the New Mount, which formed part of the landscaping to the south of the Hall, created by William Kent in 1742. Kent’s two drawing of the new Mount (one reproduced as fig. 30 in Schmidt) show a hedge with an alleyway leading to another, apparently undecorated doorway, where the hedge starts to curve up to the mount. At either side of the hedge are doorways with twin female caryatids, and the mount is marked by its mini obelisk, whose doorway with triangular pediment is flanked by four further female caryatids.
Title
Scuptural Heads from Holkham Hall Mount
Date
1743
Medium
stone
Accession number
PE31_RHT_S863
Work type
Bust
Work status
extant
Access
at all times