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Title:
Portrait head of Aby Warburg
Object name(s):
sculpture
Collection:
Senate House Library
Comments:
The German historian of Renaissance art and civilisation Aby Warburg (1866-1928) developed a library in Hamburg which grew into a research institute before being transferred to London in 1933 as the Warburg Institute. Head on hardstone cylindrical plinth (excluded from dimensions)
Dimension:
27 cm high
Material:
bronze (patinated)
Normal location:
Warburg Institute
Object name:
sculpture
Object number:
SC-0022
Object production date:
1915 (ca)
Object production person:
Warburg, Mary
Person's association:
Artist
Person's birth date:
1908-2009
Person's gender:
F
Person's nationality:
American

Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/d09ca4af-d315-31ee-a013-b6c77873192b

Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC

Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/d09ca4af-d315-31ee-a013-b6c77873192b, Senate House Library, CC BY-NC

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