Title(s)

The Holkham bust of Thucydides, a study in Greek iconography (title on object)

Object type

• book

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-36

Inscriptions / marks

• name: ‘From The Earl of Leicester’

Artist

• Adolf Michaelis (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Cambridge University Press (mentioned on object)

Place

Cambridge

Dating

1878

Material

• paper
• cardboard
• linen (material)

Technique

printing / carbon print

Measurements

height 323 mm × width 246 mm × thickness 5 mm

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Stichting, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the VSBfonds, the Paul Huf Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and the Egbert Kunstfonds

Acquisition

purchase 2001

Copyright

Public domain

Parts

• Portretbuste van Thucydides (RP-F-2001-7-36-1)
• Portretbuste van Thucydides (RP-F-2001-7-36-2)