BY ELEANOR COADE, LAMBETH, EARLY 19TH CENTURY, THE DESIGN ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN BACON

Eleanor Coade published a series of designs by John Bacon in her catalogue Coade's Gallery of 1799. The present figure is amongst the most successful designs of the Lambeth artificial stone manufacture. The earliest version may also have been commissioned by Sir John Griffin Griffin for a chimneypiece at Audley End in 1773, together with a pendant figure of a Vestal (A. Kelly, Mrs Coade's Stone, Upton-upon-Severn, 1990, pp. 129-130, n. 18).