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Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2013.
Venezia
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2013.
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2013.

Venezia

Artist Larkin Goldsmith Mead (American, 1835-1910)
CultureAmerican
Date1865-1866
MediumMarble
DimensionsOverall: 28 3/8 x 15 5/8 x 10 1/2 in. (72.1 x 39.7 x 26.7 cm)
InscribedInscribed on a plaque on back at left: "L. G. MEAD / Sculp,"; on hair clasp at back: "VENEZIA"
Credit LineGift of James H. Ricau and Museum purchase
Object number86.487
On View
Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 115-2 - Wonderstudio
DescriptionMarble statue bust of Venezia rising from a shell.

Label TextLarkin Goldsmith Mead American, 1835–1910 Venezia, 1865–66 Marble Gift of James H. Ricau and Museum purchase 86.487 Exhibition History"The Ricau Collection," The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Va., February 26 - April 23, 1989. Published ReferencesH. Nichols B. Clark, with an essay by William H. Gerdts, A MARBLE QUARRY: THE JAMES H. RICAU COLLECTION OF SCULPTURE AT THE CHRYSLER MUSEUM OF ART (NY: Hudson Hills Press, Inc., 1997), pp. 240-242; Color ill. p. 241.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Larkin Goldsmith Mead
1835-1910
New photography by Ed Pollard captured with a digital camera-2008.
Larkin Goldsmith Mead
modeled ca. 1863-65, carved 1865-66
4x5 transparency scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X1 by Ed Pollard-2011.
Thomas Crawford
modeled ca. 1850
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
John McNamee
No Date
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Mead Schaeffer
No Date
Image scanned and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Horatio Greenough
ca. 1840
New photography by Ed Pollard captured with a digital camera-2008.
Thomas Crawford
1855
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Thomas Crawford
1855
New photography by Ed Pollard captured with a digital camera-2008.
William Henry Rinehart
ca. 1860s
4x5 transparency scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X1 by Ed Pollard-2010.
Harriet Goodhue Hosmer
No Date
Image scanned and/or photographed, then color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Chauncey Bradley Ives
modeled 1851, remodeled 1863