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Title:Marble statue of Tyche-Fortuna restored with the portrait head of a woman
Period:Imperial, Late Flavian or Early Trajanic
Date:1st or 2nd century CE
Culture:Roman
Medium:Marble
Dimensions:Other: 75 x 26 x 23 in. (190.5 x 66 x 58.4 cm)
Classification:Stone Sculpture
Credit Line:Fletcher Fund, 1961
Object Number:61.82.2
1770s, purchased by William Petty Fitzmaurice, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, 2nd Earl of Shelburne in Italy, probably Rome; until 1930, collection of the Marquesses of Lansdowne, the Lansdowne House, Berkeley Square, London; [March 5, 1930, purchased through Christie’s, London, by A. Garabed]; [with A. Garabed, London]; [until 1961, with M.H. Drey Ltd., London]; acquired in 1961, purchased from M.H. Drey Ltd., London.
Baptiste Charles Othon Frederic Jean de Clarac comte and Louis-Ferdinand-Alfred Maury. 1841. "ou, Description historique et graphique du Louvre et de toutes ses parties, des statues ... du Musée royal des antiques et des Tuileries ... tirées des principaux musées et ... collections de l'Europe, accompagne d'une iconographie egyptienne, grecque." Musée de sculpture antique et moderne, 3. no. 839B, pl. 454B, Paris.
Michaelis, Adolf. 1882. Ancient Marbles in Great Britain. p. 455, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Smith, Arthur Hamilton. 1889. A catalogue of the ancient marbles at Lansdowne house, based upon the work of Adolf Michaelis : with an appendix containing original documents relating to the collection. no. 33, pp. 11, 21, London: Private Publisher.
Reinach, Salomon. 1904. Répertoire de la Statuaire Grecque et Romaine, 3. no. 839, p. 224, pl. 454B, Paris: Ernest Leroux.
Reinach, Salomon. 1906. Répertoire de la Statuaire Grecque et Romaine, 1. no. 839, p. 224, pl. 454B, Paris: Ernest Leroux.
Swarbrick, John. 1915. Robert Adam and His Brothers: Their Lives, Work and Influence on English Architecture, Decoration, and Furniture. p. 189, fig. 137, London.
Christie's, London. 1930. Ancient Marbles : The Property of the Marquess of Lansdowne. March 5, 1930. no. 106, p. 69, opp. p. 69.
Vermeule, Cornelius Clarkson. 1955. "Notes on a New Edition of Michaelis : Ancient marbles in Great Britain." American Journal of Archaeology, 59(2): p. 131.
Angelicoussis, Elizabeth. 2017. Reconstructing the Lansdowne Collection of Classical Marbles, Vols. 1 & 2, Gerard M.-F. Hill, ed. no. 8, pp. 78–83, Munich: Hirmer Verlag.
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