Statue Of Silenus With The Infant Bacchus And Pedestal Approximately 75 Metres North East Of Atlas Fountain

HENDERSKELFE SOUTH PARTERRE SE 7169 Castle Howard 12/68 Statue of Silenus with the Infant Bacchus and pedestal approximately 75 metres north-east of Atlas Fountain GV II * Statue of Silenus with the Infant Bacchus, and the pedestal on which it stands. Mid C18 statue. Pedestal c1720, probably by Nicholas Hawksmoor. Sandstone pedestal, lead statue. Pedestal approximately 2.5 metres in height, statue life size. Square 3-course base carries drum pedestal with moulded base and cornice, and festoons. Statue of faun Silenus, leaning on a tree trunk holding the child Bacchus in his arms. Copied from a Roman copy of a bronze original of the late C4, by Lysippus or one of his followers, now in the Louvre, Paris. Haskell F and Penny N, Taste and the Antique, 1981, p 307. Hussey C, English Gardens and Landscapes 1700-1750, 1967. HBMC, Register of Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England, Part 32, North Yorkshire: Castle Howard, Grade I.

Listing NGR: SE7167969990