Sujet

The Castellani Collection in the British Museum - the Parasite, (Roman comedy), 1873. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

The Castellani Collection in the British Museum - the Parasite, (Roman comedy), 1873. 'The recent purchase of the Castellani collection of art-antiquities by the trustees of the British Museum has added to the public property of this kind some things of considerable value for their beauty or curiosity...Among the minor terra-cottas...[is] a unique set of figures of Roman actors, the miser, the glutton, the parasite, and the thief, which were conventional types of character in Roman comedy. These four terra-cotta figures stand from six to eight or nine inches high. Their aspect is ludicrous enough, as is shown by our Engravings'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM25A12_482

Model release

NA

Property release

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

10,5Mo (705,9Ko) / 12,2cm x 21,6cm / 1436 x 2550 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Italy arts country Rome entertainment statue statues sculpture art British museum archaeology Roman terracotta ceramic location ceramics collection British Museum century archaeological statuette Britain find comedy newspapers press print figurine character pottery artefact concept actors acting archeology artifact B&W actor grotesque engraved engraving terra cotta comedian 19th century Thespian black & white black and white B W Ancient Roman Ancient Rome nineteenth century The Print Collector Illustrated London News wood engraving ILN newspaper Unknown Alessandro Castellani Castellani Alessandro 19th-century Castellani Collection The Illustrated London News