Detail of Work


Warning: Undefined array key "this_action" in C:\Program Files\FileMaker\FileMaker Server\HTTPServer\conf\henrymoore\works\browserecord.php on line 312

Warning: Undefined array key "this_action" in C:\Program Files\FileMaker\FileMaker Server\HTTPServer\conf\henrymoore\works\browserecord.php on line 312

Warning: Undefined array key "this_action" in C:\Program Files\FileMaker\FileMaker Server\HTTPServer\conf\henrymoore\works\browserecord.php on line 317

Warning: Undefined array key "this_action" in C:\Program Files\FileMaker\FileMaker Server\HTTPServer\conf\henrymoore\works\browserecord.php on line 317
Show Sculptor  |  C:\Program Files\FileMaker\FileMaker Server\HTTPServer\conf\henrymoore\works\browserecord.php on line 325
&back=true">Return to List
 
Sculptor Surname Chantrey  Co Sculptor Surname  
First Name Sir Francis Legatt RA  Co Sculptor First Name  
Date 1815-1816  Category Bust 
Subject Professor John Playfair, with an ornamental pedestal 
Other Versions  
Drawings   Materials
Marble 
Size
27 6/10” (inc. socle) 
Models Ashm, plaster  Payments £105; £26 14s 6d for the pedestal 
Alterations   Status
 
Signed Date
SD 
Exhibitions RA London, 1814, 782  Signature CHANTREY, Sculptor 1814 
Original Location   Original Owner T F Kennedy of Edinburgh 
Location 2   Owner 2 Playfair’s nephew, 1856 
Location 3   Owner 3  
Location 4   Owner 4  
Location 5   Owner 5  
Location 6   Owner 6  
Location Current Edinburgh, Old University Library  Owner Current  
Literary Reference Graves II, 1905-6, 40; Chantrey Ledgers, 1991-92, 38; Penny 1992, 242 (repr)