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Augustin Dumont’s Trentham ‘Genius of Liberty’ rediscovered
04/2012 | 1309 | 154
Pages: 241-247
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Author:
Ward-Jackson, Philip (Ward-Jackson, Philip; Ward-Jackson, Phillip; Jackson, Philip Ward; Ward-Jackon, Philip)
Subjects
artists:
Dumont, Augustin
artists:
Barry, Charles
buildings:
Trentham Hall, Trentham, Staffs, Great Britain
dates:
1800-1839
patrons:
Leveson-Gower, George Granville, Second Duke of Sutherland, 1786-1861 / Leveson-Gower, Harriet Elizabeth Georgiana, Duchess of Sutherland, 1806-1868
print:
Dumont, Augustin
subjects:
French sculpture / Sculpture / Bronzes / Lost works / Provenance / Identification / Commissions
subjects:
British architecture / Architectural components / Architecture / Visual sources
subjects:
Patronage
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. The clock tower, Cliveden House, Buckinghamshire. Architect Henry Clutton. c.1861, with the replacement of a nineteenth-century copy of Dumont’s Genius of Liberty. (Photograph the author).
Attributed works:
11. Detail of Fig.9, showing signature and founder’s mark.
Attributed works:
12. East elevation of the sculpture gallery, bath, larder and entrance to the courtyard in front of the dairy, Trentham Hall, Staffs, by Charles Barry. c.1840. Colour-wash drawing, 37 by 53 cm. (Sutherland Papers, Staffordshire County Record Office).
Attributed works:
13. The July Column, place de la Bastille, Paris. Architects Jean-Antoine Alavoine and Joseph-Louis Duc. 1831–40. (Photograph James Austin).
Attributed works:
14. The Genius of Liberty, by Augustin Dumont. 1833. Plaster, 235 cm. high. (Musée Municipal, Semur-en-Auxois).
Attributed works:
15. The Genius of France between Liberty and Death, by Jean-Baptiste Regnault. 1795. Canvas, 60 by 49 cm. (Kunsthalle, Hamburg).
Attributed works:
16. Detail of Fig.9, showing the mark of J.A. Hatfield.
Attributed works:
17. Trentham Hall, Staffordshire. Architect Charles Barry. 1834–42. (Photographed in 1898).
Attributed works:
9. The Genius of Liberty, by Augustin Dumont, cast by Soyer et Ingé. 1835. Bronze, the flame and star gilt, 269 cm. high. (Private collection, USA).