The lost Venus of Knidos and an attempt at her reconstruction

John Bell

RA Collection: Book

Record number

13/1572

Author

Imprint

[s.l.]: [s.n.], [1888], 295 Edgware Road, London, Farmer & Sons, [1888]

Physical Description

6 p. : 18 cm.

General Note

Title taken from front cover

Provenance

Inscribed in ink on the front free endpaper "Presented to the Library of The Royal Academy of Arts by J. Bell. March 1889" [Copy 2].

Copy Note

Copy 2 includes 4 pages of manuscript text at the back; a black & white photograph of a copy of the statue pasted on to a front free endpaper and a photograph of a cast of an Imperial coin of Knidos depicting the statue.

Name as Subject