Tazza, with representation of Heracles and the Garden of the Hesperides.
Published / Created:
England, 1851.
Physical Description:
1 tazza : cast iron ; diameter 33 cm (43 cm including handles), height 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961.
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Related Content:
View catalog record for The Meidias Hydria (British Museum, 1772,0320.30.+)
http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=399269&partId=1
Classification:
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
Notes:
"The council, in continuation of their efforts to carry out the principle constantly advocated in their reports, of bringing high art to the aid of our manufactures, have commissioned the production of a tazza in fine cast iron. The form selected is one of the most graceful in the Etruscan room in the British Museum, and it is intended to ornament the interior of the bowl with figures in low relief, which have been very successfully modelled by Mr. E Wyon, after a design from a vase in Sir Wm. Hamilton's collection, representing Hercules and the Hesperides. A certain number of the tazzas will be given as prizes in the distribution of the current year."--The Art-Union of London, in The Builder, vol. IX, no. 413 (1851), page 7.
Subject Terms:
Heracles (Greek mythological character) | Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England) | Garden of the Hesperides (Greek mythology)
Form/Genre:
Tazzas. | Bas-reliefs (sculpture) | Awards.
Contributors:
based on (work): Meidias painter, active 5th century B.C.-4th century B.C. Hydria. | Art Union of London.