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The evolution of the Chiswick #Sphinx. The sphinx today at Chiswick were copied from a 1st century #RomanSphinx (photo 1) which had been brought back to England by none other than Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, the patron of #InigoJones. The sphinx was copied and given a partner by the Italian sculptor #GiovanniBattistaGuelfi (who had been working on the #PomfretMarbles) who then gave the design (slightly embellished) to #RichardBoyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington. Stone sphinx were carved by Guelfi with lead sphinxes of this design produced by #JohnCheere to symbolically guard the front and rear of the villa (temple- photo 2). Lord Burlington or #WilliamKent then gave the design to #CharlesLennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond at Goodwood House at Carne’s Seat (photo 3) and to John and Catherine Parker at Saltram House (photo 4). The original sphinx (plus its Guelfi companion) on which the Chiswick sphinx are based, are today at the Ashmolean with other examples from the Arundel sculptures and marbles. The Roman sphinx also appeared on an Oxford Almanack of 1757 showing several of the Arundel Marbles including the Roman sphinx and on the frontispiece of #WilliamHogarth’s ‘Analysis of Beauty’. @Goodwood_Estate @SaltramHouseNT @Chiswick_House #Egyptomania #sphinx #EgyptinLondon @AshmoleanMuseum

whitegoldsword's tweet photo. The evolution of the Chiswick #Sphinx. The sphinx today at Chiswick were copied from a 1st century #RomanSphinx (photo 1) which had been brought back to England by none other than Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, the patron of #InigoJones. The sphinx was copied and given a partner by the Italian sculptor #GiovanniBattistaGuelfi (who had been working on the #PomfretMarbles) who then gave the design (slightly embellished) to #RichardBoyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington. Stone sphinx were carved by Guelfi with lead sphinxes of this design produced by #JohnCheere to symbolically guard the front and rear of the villa (temple- photo 2). Lord Burlington or #WilliamKent then gave the design to #CharlesLennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond at Goodwood House at Carne’s Seat (photo 3) and to John and Catherine Parker at Saltram House (photo 4).

The original sphinx (plus its Guelfi companion) on which the Chiswick sphinx are based, are today at the Ashmolean with other examples from the Arundel sculptures and marbles.

The Roman sphinx also appeared on an Oxford Almanack of 1757 showing several of the Arundel Marbles including the Roman sphinx and on the frontispiece of #WilliamHogarth’s ‘Analysis of Beauty’.

@Goodwood_Estate @SaltramHouseNT @Chiswick_House #Egyptomania #sphinx #EgyptinLondon @AshmoleanMuseum

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