Title
Memorial to Percy Bysshe Shelley
Subject
An atheist's apotheosis
Description
This extraordinary memorial, depicting Percy Bysshe Shelley's drowned corpse, was commissioned by his daughter-in-law Jane Gibson Shelley to be placed in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome, where Shelley is buried. However, the sculpture designed by Edward Onslow Ford (1852-1901) proved too large for its intended site and was installed at University College in 1893 instead.
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Publisher
Museum of Oxford
Rights
Photo credit: Andrew Shiva, CC BY-SA 4.0
Alt text
Marble sculpture of a naked man lying on his side. Supported by two winged lions and a weeping female figure.
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