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fig. 1
Head of a Young Woman, traditionally known
as Head of Isis, illustrated in Ennio Quirino
Visconti, Il Museo Pio-Clementino, vol. 6,
I busti del Museo Pio-Clementino, Rome, 1792,
plate XVII
who was active in Rome from 1822 until his death, it was acquired by C.D.E.
Fortnum most likely during his Grand Tour in 1851, and located in his drawing
room at Hill House, Stanmore (Penny 1992, no. 515). It is interesting to note that
in our marble, as in the Ashmolean’s, the chest is broadened from the original the
better to suit the proportions of the head, and the socle is slightly different from
the ancient one.
related literature
E.Q. Visconti, Il Museo Pio Clementino, vol. VI, Busti del Museo Pio-Clementino, Rome, 1792,
p. 27, pl. XVII
W. Amelung, Die Sculpturen des Vaticanischen Museums, Berlin, 1908, vol. II, part 3,
pp. 558–60, no. 375
N. Penny, Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum: 1540 to the present day,
Oxford, 1992, vol. III, p. 95, no. 515
