Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Joseph Nollekens, 1737–1823, British
Title:
Venus
Date:
1770s
Materials & Techniques:
Terracotta
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 1/8 × 2 3/4 inches (20.6 × 7 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.17
Classification:
Sculptures
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
goddess | headdress | cloak | nude | Greek | woman | religious and mythological subject
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
John Kenworthy - Browne, Terracotta Models by Joseph Nollekens, Sculpture Journal, vol. 2, pp.74, 82, pl. 15, NB1 S39 (HAAS)

Ingrid Roscoe, A biographical dictionary of sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2009, p. 905, no. 182, NB496 B56 2009 (YCBA) (Wall Shelf 3) Yale electronic resource also available online: Orbis

John Thomas Smith, Nollekens and his times, and memoirs of contemporary artists from the time of Roubiliac, Hogarth and Reynolds to that of Fuseli, Flaxman and Blake, John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, London; New York, 1920, pp. 346-7, NJ18 N73 S645 1920 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1462