The Sculptor Preparations for the Academy, Old Joseph Nollekens and his Venus, Thomas Rowlandson, ca. 1800

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The Sculptor Preparations for the Academy, Old Joseph Nollekens and his Venus, ca. 1800, Hand-colored etching, Sheet (trimmed): 11 1/4 × 8 9/16 in. ( × cm), Prints, Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London), Rowlandson caricatures Sir Joseph Nollekens, who sculptures of classical gods and contemporary busts helped popularize Neoclassical taste in Britain. The sculptor’s collection of plaster and terracotta casts and antique fragments, brought back from Rome, crowds his studio

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