Eccentric snippets

The Spectator | October 20, 2001| | Copyright

Exhibitions 1

Marble Mania: Sculpture Galleries in England 1640-1840

(Sir John Soane's Museum, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC1, till 22 December)

Three colossal feet confront the visitor at the beginning of this exhibition, and the startling difference in their condition highlights the changing attitudes to antique sculpture. The best preserved (and largest) was given to the British Museum by Sir William Hamilton in 1784, but the other two were part of the famous 17th-century Arundel Collection. Lord Arundel died in exile and his house in the Strand was plundered and dismantled during and ...

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