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Artist/Maker
Unknown artist
Datedate unknown
MediumTerracotta
DimensionsOverall: 11 × 8 3/4 × 4 1/2 in. (27.9 × 22.2 × 11.4 cm)
Credit LineHamilton College Collection
Object numberINV.542
Not on view
DescriptionComplete, but mended at some point in the past. Hollow, with irregular hole cut in back of head. Back of figure unmodelled. Wearing polos; hair parted in center and drawn back over lower edge of polos, straight at part, elaborately wavy at sides. Slab forehead; large eyes with heavy lids, straight nose, full lips, heavy chin; earlobes represented by flat disks below hair. Folds of neck modeled; necklage of beads at base of neck. Mold app. finely modelled face; rest of bust left quite plain and unmodelled.
Additional Details
Alternate Titles
Bust of a woman wearing a polos
Exhibition History
2015
Clinton, NY (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College). "Seek and Find," September 1, 2015 - August 2016 (no cat., brochure).
Clinton, NY (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College). "Seek and Find," September 1, 2015 - August 2016 (no cat., brochure).
Provenance
by c. 1960s: Hamilton College;
remaining provenance unknown
remaining provenance unknown
Markings
Label: adhesive label with typeset "730" on front at neckline.
Signature
Not signed.
Inscribed
"[illegible] / TM 041" at upper back of figure [upside down] in pencil.
Thomas Nast
Date: published June 27, 1874
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.245
Unknown artist, Greek (Ancient)
Date: c. 332-250 BCE
Medium: Terracotta with remnants of pigment
Object number: 1943.20
Hiram Powers
Date: 1867-70
Medium: Marble
Object number: 1869.2
Unknown artist, Roman Empire
Date: 3rd century CE
Medium: Blown glass
Object number: 1929.87