An Early 18thC Terracotta Bust of Hermes c.1700-50 sub-Macabre- Medicine reserving 250 beds for paying

reserving 250 beds for paying patients

Masschetusets but spent many years in Europe where he ‘gained great celebrity’ as a portrait painter

or the library

with areas of flaked loss

The skulls refer to the hill of Golgotha ("the place of the skull")

An Early 18thC Terracotta Bust of Hermes c.1700-50 sub-Macabre- Medicine reserving 250 beds for payingOrigin: ItalianPeriod: Early Mid 18thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1700 50Width: 10. 5Height: 19. 5Depth: 11The early sculpted terracotta bust of Hermes or Mercury, the whole with weathering and a very honest and well established patina, facing dexter and gazing slightly downward conveying a dreamy, almost wistful expression, with tight short curled hair and the distinctive flat cap, or petasos, to an integral plinth base, the whole surviving from the