Plaster Relief Copy of the Frieze from the Parthenon with Horsemen

work height: 28 cm
work width: 42.5 cm
work depth: 4 cm

Small Plaster Relief Cast of the Frieze from the Parthenon with Two Horsemen on a rectangular base. Incised with 'B. Cheverton. 1853'. Benjamin Cheverton (1794-1876) was an artist who designed a reducing machine, with the assistance of engineer John Isaac Hawkins, that made it possible to produce small scale replicas of sculpture. An example of one such machine is in the Science Museum. Cheverton demonstrated his reducing machine at the Great Exhibition of 1851, and won a gold medal for his copy of Theseus from the Elgin collection at the British Museum.