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Sculpture: S0031

Title

Sarah Siddons (called)

Technique

Plaster

Subject

Artist

Siddons, Sarah [ Attributed to ]

Date

c.1820

Dimensions

Height: 24.5cm
Width: 22cm
Depth: 8cm

Other materials

Plaster Medallion painted to resemble terracotta; oval (ebonised wooden frame 33.5 x 31.5)

Inscription/signature

“Mrs. Sarah Siddons / Who lived at 27 Upper....” (pen & ink on paper covering verso); “Terra Cotta Placque / supposed to have / been modelled / by Sarah Siddons / personally” (pen & ink on Miss Dethridge's visiting card); “to the Garrick Club / July 1932” (verso of visiting card)

Provenance

Presented to the Garrick Club by Miss Dethridge, 1932

Other number

Gift 491 [with a chair and two swords]

Although this profile bears some general resemblance to Siddons, it is perhaps simply an ideal head of a type popular in the neo-classical period. It has the soft modelling seen in the self-portrait bust in the Theatre Museum.
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