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Sculptor Surname Bird  Co Sculptor Surname  
First Name Francis  Co Sculptor First Name  
Date 1721-1727  Category Funerary Monument 
Subject John, 1st Duke of Newcastle (†1711) (designed by James Gibbs) 
Other Versions  
Drawings Wren, fol II, no 59 (Soane); Welbeck Abbey Archives 010716, on loan RIBA (by Gibbs); Soc Antiq, Harley Coll VI, f18 (by Gibbs)  Materials
 
Size
 
Models ‘neatly done in pear tree and the figures done in beard earth £40’; untraced  Payments £50 paid 16 May 1721, and £81 on 22 April, 1727 (BL, Portland Papers loan 29/387)  
Alterations   Status
 
Signed Date
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Exhibitions   Signature  
Original Location   Original Owner  
Location 2   Owner 2  
Location 3   Owner 3  
Location 4   Owner 4  
Location 5   Owner 5  
Location 6   Owner 6  
Location Current Westminster Abbey, London, north transept  Owner Current  
Literary Reference Dart 2 1723, 124 (repr); Vertue III, 19, 108-9; Physick 1969, 32, 60-61; Friedman 1984, 87-89, 314 (repr); Whinney 1988, 155-6, 448 n18; Craske 2007, 109, 148, 445 n20