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Statues and Figurines in the Lytham St Annes Art Collection

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Picture
Amphitrite/Sea Nymph
Artist Benjamin Spence



Picture
Hebe, Goddess of Eternal Youth
Artist Rinaldo Rinaldi

Picture
Italian Marble Figurative
​Group
 - Courting Couple (possibly Orpheus and Eurydice) by
Artist
​Ferdinando Vichi


Picture
Alcina
Artist F S Franchini

Picture
​     Farnese Hercules

      Artist                    Glykon von Athen (after) (reproduced from the original by Lysippos) 
      Medium               Marble
      Size                     H 80 cm (31.5 in)
      Date produced    c.216AD (4th century BC for the original)
      Donor                  Alderman and Mrs J H Dawson
      Date donated      March, 1931

      The Farnese Hercules is an ancient statue of Hercules, probably an enlarged copy made in the early          3rd century AD and signed by Glykon, whose name is Greek but is otherwise unknown.  It is a copy
      or version of a much older Greek original, a bronze by Lysippos (or one of his circle). This original       
      survived until it was melted down in 1205 by Crusaders.


The massive Glykon copy, standing at 3.17 metres (10.5 ft), was made for the Baths of Caracalla in Rome (dedicated 216AD) from where the statue was recovered in 1546.  It is now in the Museo Archeological Nazionale, Naples.

This Italian Verde Antico (antique green) marble full length figure shows Hercules standing beside a rock, weary, leaning on his club, which has the skin of the Nemean lion draped over it.  In myths about Heracles, killing the lion was the first task of The Twelve Labours.  It has been suggested that he has just performed one of the last tasks as he is concealing apples behind his back, cradled in his right hand, the apples of Hesperides.

Picture
​       Ballet Dancer
       
       Artist                     Unknown
       Medium                Glass and Plastic           
​       Size    
       Date produced      c.2013
       Donor                   Wynne Hodge Smith commemorating
                                    Lytham St Annes Dance Festival
       Date donated        March 2013

Picture
Venus

Artist           Unknown
Medium      Unknown
Donor         Eva Dickinson nee Walmsley
                   (1886-1949)
                   Balmoral Road,
​                   Lytham St Annes

Donated     2 October 1936
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Socrates 

Artist                       Unknown
Medium                  Unknown
Donor                     Mrs C Turner-Gresley,
                              13 Balmoral Road, Lytham St Annes
Date donated         31 May 1940 
Unlocated at the present time


 
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Apollo   

Artist                      Unknown
Medium                 Unknown
Donor                    Eva Dickinson nee Walmsley (1886-1949)
                              Balmoral Road, Lytham St Annes
Date donated         2 October 1936

​Unlocated at the present time



                                                             
The Rt Hon W E Gladstone and Shakespeare                                         
Artists                 Unknown                                   
Medium               Marble  & Ceramic     

Donor                  Mary Eliza Garlick (1865-1937) and sister
                            Kate Howard Garlick (1867-1948)
                            Newholme, 45 Park Road, Lytham St Annes 
Date donated       
2 November 1936                                                                                               
Both u
nlocated at present time   
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