Warren Hastings (1732-1818) Governor General of India
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About the work
- Location
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Country: India
City: Kolkata
Place: British Deputy High Commission
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- Places
- Subjects
- male portrait, Neo-Classicism, man, Governor General of India, diplomat
- Materials & Techniques
- marble, bust (as object name), marble bust
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Details
- Artist
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Thomas Banks (1735 - 1805)
- Title
- Warren Hastings (1732-1818) Governor General of India
- Date
- 1796
- Medium
- Marble bust
- Dimensions
- height: 66.00 cm, width: 47.00 cm
- Acquisition
- Presented by J Rochelle Thomas (The Georgian Galleries), February 1954
- Inscription
- bc: INGRATA PATRIA
- Provenance
- Commissioned by William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, later Earl of Shelburne (1737-1805) for Lansdowne House, Berkeley Square; by descent; sold through Christie's, 'Lansdowne House' sale, on 6 March 1930 (Lot 35; with 'wood pedestal carved with dolphins and foliage, and painted white'), for £84.0.0; from which sale purchased by J. Rochelle Thomas (of The Georgian Galleries), King Street, London SW1; by whom presented to the Ministry of Works in 1954
- GAC number
- 2680