William, Lord Cavendish, Fifth Duke of Devonshire (1748-1811)
Artist
Joseph Nollekens
British, 1737–1823
Datecirca 1812
MediumMarble
Dimensionsheight, width, and depth: 26 1/2 × 16 × 10 in. (67.3 × 40.6 × 25.4 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph W. Gardner
Object numberG.58.11.1
On View
Not on viewPublished References"Registrar's Report of New Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 2, no. 1 (Summer 1958), listed 43-44.
May Davis Hill, "Checklist of Additional Sculptures in the North Carolina Museum of Art," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 2, no. 1 (Summer 1958), listed 35 (as Bust of William Pitt), illus. (b-w) 34.
John Kenworthy-Browne, "A Marble Bust of Nollekens," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 14, no. 1 (1977), 1-13, illus. (b-w) 1, 2, 3.
Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 124.
Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 81.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “History and Mystery: Discoveries in the NCMA British Collection,” August 6, 2016–June 25, 2017.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–May 29, 2024. Object Rights Statement
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