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Fragment of a Fresco with the Poet as King
n.d. (modern)
brown, white, blue and yellow colors on plaster
(Roman Empire )
(Roman Empire )
This fresco is brown, white, blue and yellow, and within a border depicts a man and woman standing. Skene is kneeling and writing with the left hand under a mask. This figure is copied from the "Poet as King" fresco from Herculaneum in Naples. Under the paint, there are traces of other colors.
Provenance
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Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Joseph Brummer [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1922 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Italy (Place of Origin)
Measurements
L: 9 3/4 in. (24.7 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1922
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
33.1