Tired Mercury

Robert Ingersoll Aitken, American, 1878 - 1949
Roman Bronze Works, New York

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1907

Bronze

Overall: 30 1/4 × 9 1/4 × 8 13/16 in. (76.8 × 23.5 × 22.4 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Collection of Roger Arvid Anderson, Class of 1968

EL.2017.65.110

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Sculpture

Research Area

Sculpture

Not on view

Inscriptions

AITKEN 1907 PARIS; stamped ROMAN BRONZE WORKS N. Y.

Course History

CLST 04, Classical Mythology, Simone Oppen, Fall 2019

Publication History

Roger Arvid Anderson, The Roger Arvid Anderson Collection, Medals, Medallions, Plaquettes and Small Reliefs, Paintings, Sculpture, Works on Paper and Textiles, San Francisco: Roger Arvid Anderson (published privately), design by David L. Wilson, 2015, p. 282.

Provenance

American Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Christie's, New York, lot 99, March 11, 1993; sold to Roger Arvid Anderson, San Francisco, California, 1993; lent to present collection, 2017.

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