Sunday 4 December 2016

Bust of Cicero in The Long Room Trinity College Library, Dublin.

A Marble Bust Representing Cicero
in The Long Room, Trinity College Library,
Dublin.
Peter Scheemakers.
signed P.S. Ft.
























Photographed by the Author, 6 October 2016



Bust statue of Julius Caesar (wrongly titled Cicero) with short hair, wearing a fringed scarf, bust on a pedestal, almost seen in profile to right; from a set of twelve plates showing antique busts after drawings by Rubens.  1638 Engraving


After a drawing by Rubens
Bust of Julius Caesar wrongly believed to represent Cicero.
From Rubens Antiquities Collection
engraving by Jan Witdoeck
339 x 232 mm
1638.
from the series Twelve Famous Greek and Roman Men.
British Museum.



Head and shoulders from a sculpted bust, directed to left, wearing a fringed toga with a circular clasp at the right shoulder.  Mezzotint



Cicero
After Rubens
Anon Mezzotint.
202 x 150 mm.
c1670 - 1730?
British Museum.
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Bronze bust of 'Cicero'
Massimiliano Soldani Benzi (1656 - 1740).
after the ancient Ufizzi bust. (see below).
From a series of twelve heads made for the Liechtenstein princely palaces.
Height 60 cms.
Liechtenstein Museum Vienna
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Cicero. Marble. 1st century BCE. Florence, Gallery of Uffizi




Cicero. Marble. 1st century BCE. Florence, Gallery of Uffizi







Marble Bust of 'Cicero'
Ufizzi Gallery,
Florence.
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Philip Dormer Stanhope, Lord Chesterfield with his bust of 'Cicero'
after William Hoare
Mezzotint
John Brookes
496 x 348 mm.
c.1748

© National Portrait Gallery, London

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Lead Bust of Cicero probably by John Cheere
at Heywood - Garden designed by Lutyens
Photograph from Country Life 1917

see my post - http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/asummary-of-researches-into-bust-of.html





Cicero
Plaster bust
Stourhead
National Trust.
Probably by John Cheere or a cast from a model by him.

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Two Wedgwood Busts
Cicero and Seneca 1790.
48 cms and 46.9 cms.

see - http://www.europeanporcelain.com/index.pl?isa=Metadot::SystemApp::AntiqueSearch;op=detail;id=149512;image_id=446584;#


For the Wedgwood busts see -
The Wedgwood Handbook: A Manual for Collectors. Treating of the Marks ...

By Eliza Meteyard, 1875 - available on Google books

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