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A bust of George Dollond with his head in three-quarter profile to the left as viewed. In the classical style with draped shoulders, he has short hair with side-whiskers. The bust is set on a round marble socle. This unsigned bust was presented to the Royal Society in 1893 by Dollond's great-nephew, in the mistaken belief it was by Richard Garland, a Camberwell stonemason and sculptor who did a posthumous one of the sitter's maternal grandfather, John Dollond (1706–1761), which George himself appears to have commissioned and gave to the Society in 1843. There is good evidence that in 1850 Charles Summers modelled busts of both George and his astronomer friend and patron Henry Lawson (1774–1855) at Bath, where Lawson lived. The finished marble of Lawson (no.
Title
George Dollond (1774–1852)
Date
early 19th C
Medium
marble
Measurements
H 68.6 x W 56.7 x D 30 cm;
Plinth: H 13.3 x W 28.2 x D 28.2 cm
Accession number
RS.13590
Acquisition method
presented by A. W. Dollond, 1893
Work type
Bust
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