- Title:
- A Greek Boxer Waiting His Turn
- Former Title(s):
- Marble statue of a Greek boxer waiting his turn [1840, Royal Academy of Arts, London, exhibition catalogue]
- Date:
- ca. 1838
- Materials & Techniques:
- Marble
- Dimensions:
- Overall: 20 1/2 x 16 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches (52.1 x 41.9 x 24.1 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed by chisel on base below the boxer's buttock, proper left: "J. GOTT. F."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1980.34
- Classification:
- Sculptures
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Subject Terms:
- boxer | figure study | genre subject | Greek | man | Neoclassical | nude | portrait | sports
- Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1486
- Export:
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Terry Friedman, Joseph Grott, 1786-1860, Sculptor, catalogue by Terry Friedman and Timothy Stevens of an exhibition at Leeds, Stable Court Exhibition Galleries, Temple Newsam House, 23 August - 14 October and Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, 3 November - 3 December , Stable Court Exhibition Galleries, Leeds, 1972, p. 21, no. 8, 9, pl. 11, 12, NJ18 G647 F75 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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Duncan Robinson, Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977 - 1986, , Burlington Magazine, vol. 128, October 1986, p. 21, no. 62, N1 B87 128:3 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Ingrid Roscoe, A biographical dictionary of sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2009, p. 545, NB496 B56 2009 (YCBA) (Wall Shelf 3) Yale electronic resource also available online: Orbis [YCBA]
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Walker Art Gallery, Joseph Grott, 1786-1860: Sculptor, Liverpool, 1972, p. 21, Not Available at Yale [ORBIS]