A Plaster Bust of Lord Mansfield
at the Hurd Library.
Hartlebury Castle, Worcestrshire.
Plaster bust of William Murray, Lord Mansfield.
At the Hurd Library, Hartlebury Worcestershire.
Probably after the original by Rysbrack of at Scone Palace.
The Hurd Library, housed in the former Bishop’s Palace at Hartlebury Castle, Worcestershire, is an outstanding survival of the Age of Enlightenment. Founded in 1782 by Richard Hurd, Bishop of Worcester from 1781-1808, it is the only example of an Anglican bishop’s library remaining on its original shelves in the room built for it. It holds the collections of four men: Alexander Pope (1688-1744), Ralph Allen (1693-1764), William Warburton (1698-1779) and Hurd himself.
Text and image from Hurd Library Blog -
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Lord Mansfield by Nollekens at Kenwood House.
The bust by Nollekens of the eminent judge is at the Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood, and a replica? at Belvoir Castle. Both are dated 1779.
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Athenaeum Club Plaster bust of Lord Mansfield
Supplied by Pietro Sarti in 1830
The present plaster is a cast from another bust by Nollekens, undated but certainly authentic, at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, which has slightly different drapery. J T Smith wrote that the moulds of Nollekens’s busts of Johnson (No 4) and Mansfield were sold in 1823 to James Deville, plaster worker and phrenologist in The Strand, and Sarti may have used the same moulds.
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Wax of Lord Mansfield by Isaac Gosset
Hurd Library.
Wax Portrait Reliefs of 'Mrs. Anth. Stewart, Edin. 1795,
Tassie F.'
and of William Murray by Tassie.
in frames 12 x 9 cms.
Impressed on the truncation.
'Uni Aequus Virtuti Edin. 1770.
Sold Dominic Winter Salerooms
15 October 2015.
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