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| Keywords: Sketch of a French Empire style clock. History.jpg en Watercolour gouache and pen and ink on laid paper Numbered 2 Dimensions 50 4 cm by 33 cm To be executed in gilt bronze; enamel dial; black marble platform The standing goddess recording the deeds of men with a stylus on the tablet she is displaying on a shaped naos tabernacle fronted by the clock with a crossed palm-leaf mount below the dial; the frieze of victors ™ laurel wreaths The goddesses of Victory Fame and History are all overlapping representing three successive aspects of the recognition of political attainment Hence they are very similarly personified as winged females variously sharing the same attributes of the palm laurel crown and tablet History records the deeds of men of Fame who have achieved Victory As such they were all naturally harnessed to underpin the legitimacy of the Restoration of the Bourbon dynasty following the defeat of Napoleon http //watercolours-drawings com/details asp subGalID 5 index 6 author between 1814 1820 PD-Art French Empire style mantel clock Sketches | ||||
