Cast Gallery catalogue number: C180

Head of Aphrodite.

• Plaster cast: Height: 37 cm.
• Copy of the head of a marble statue.
• The head:
  • is known as the Broadlands Aphrodite.
  • is a version of an original of the 4th century BC.
  • was purchased in Italy by the second Viscount Palmerston in 1764 for his collection at Broadlands.
  • was then in the collections of Lord Ronald Gower and Mr E.P. Warren.
  • is now in Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 96.694.