The Damerian Apollo

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The Damerian Apollo
etching, hand colored
image: 200 x 275 mm; sheet 245 x 300 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 1804
Published: 
London : Pub. by Wm Holland, Garrick's Richard, No. 50 Oxford Street, July 1, 1789.
Provenance: 
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes: 

Title from item.
Library's copy trimmed to plate mark.

Summary: 

Print shows the English sculptor Anne Damer, seated in profile to the left, chiseling the posterior of a large and realistic Apollo standing in profile to the left and holding a spear, with the left arm extended; a little girl (left) in 'profil perdu', gazes at the Apollo in astonishment. On a pedestal (left) are two nude figures, one full-face, the other in quasi-back view, drawn with extreme realism. Beside them (left) is an armless torso on a terminal pillar. These three statues are 'Studies from Nature'. On the right is a bust of a child's head in profile to the left, on a pedestal inscribed 'A Model to make a Boy from'. Beside it lie a book, 'Sketches of Different Parts'. Behind Mrs. Damer (left) is a grinning whole length figure of 'Pan'. There are also two figures on tall pedestals: a Hercules and a headless figure, and a bust. All the figures in the studio are completely nude. Mrs. Damer wears gloves; her mallet is raised to strike her chisel.

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