Percy Bysche Shelley

Maker Marianne Leigh Hunt (British, 1788 - 1857)

ClassificationsSCULPTURE

Date1836

Mediumpainted plaster

Dimensionsheight: 17 × 10 × 10 in. (43.2 × 25.4 × 25.4 cm.)

DescriptionThis sculpture portrays the English writer Percy Bysshe Shelley, who is considered one of the major Romantic poets and among the finest lyric poets of the English language.

Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Gift of Mrs. Mabel Wing Castle

Status

Not on view

Object number42.2

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