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English: Sculpture - Pluto and Proserpine

Signed and dated 1849
Edward James Physick (1829-1906)
London
Plaster
Shown at the Great Exhibition, 1851

In classical mythology Proserpine was the daughter of Ceres, the goddess of agriculture. Proserpine had been collecting flowers with her female companions when Pluto, the god of the underworld, seized her. Pluto � struck by Cupid�s arrow � carries Proserpine to the underworld where she become his wife.

Physick, active in the 19th century, won the Royal Academy Gold Medal in 1850 for a relief entitled The Rape of Proserpine,, probably this piece. He later also exhibited the same work at the Great Exhibition of 1851. The energetic composition recalls the work of Giambologna, in particular his Rape of the Sabines, in the Piazza della Signora, in Florence, a figure group Physick would have known.

Presented by Belinda Physick in memory of her father, David Physick

Collection ID: A.1-2005

This photo was taken as part of Britain Loves Wikipedia in February 2010 by Iza Bella.

Date Photographed in February 2010
Source Originally uploaded at http://www.britainloveswikipedia.org/
Author Iza Bella

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