Book contents
- Frontmatter
- INTRODUCTION
- Contents
- Plate I THE STATUE OF SIR ISAAC NEWTON IN THE ANTE-CHAPEL
- Plate II NEWTON
- Plate III FRANCIS WILLOUGHBY
- Plate IV FRANCIS WILLOUGHBY, British Museum
- Plate V BACON
- Plate VI JOHN RAY
- Plate VII JOHN RAY, British Museum
- Plate VIII BARROW
- Plate IX BARROW
- Plate X BENTLEY
- Plate XI BENTLEY
- Plate XII PLASTER CAST OF THE BUST OF BENTLEY, Lambeth Palace
- Plate XIII LORD TREVOR
- Plate XIV LORD WHITWORTH
- Plate XV SIR EDWARD COKE
- Plate XVI SIR ROBERT COTTON
- Plate XVII TERRACOTTA MODEL FOR THE BUST OF COTTON AT TRINITY, British Museum
- Plate XVIII MONUMENT OF DANIEL LOCK, F.R.S., IN THE ANTECHAPEL OF TRINITY COLLEGE
- Plate XIX MONUMENT OF FRANCIS HOOPER, S.T.P., BY ROUBILIAC'S PUPIL, NICHOLAS READ, IN THE ANTE-CHAPEL OF TRINITY COLLEGE
- Plate XX THE DEATH-MASK OF SIR ISAAC NEWTON
- NOTE ON PLATE XVIII
Plate XVIII - MONUMENT OF DANIEL LOCK, F.R.S., IN THE ANTECHAPEL OF TRINITY COLLEGE
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2011
- Frontmatter
- INTRODUCTION
- Contents
- Plate I THE STATUE OF SIR ISAAC NEWTON IN THE ANTE-CHAPEL
- Plate II NEWTON
- Plate III FRANCIS WILLOUGHBY
- Plate IV FRANCIS WILLOUGHBY, British Museum
- Plate V BACON
- Plate VI JOHN RAY
- Plate VII JOHN RAY, British Museum
- Plate VIII BARROW
- Plate IX BARROW
- Plate X BENTLEY
- Plate XI BENTLEY
- Plate XII PLASTER CAST OF THE BUST OF BENTLEY, Lambeth Palace
- Plate XIII LORD TREVOR
- Plate XIV LORD WHITWORTH
- Plate XV SIR EDWARD COKE
- Plate XVI SIR ROBERT COTTON
- Plate XVII TERRACOTTA MODEL FOR THE BUST OF COTTON AT TRINITY, British Museum
- Plate XVIII MONUMENT OF DANIEL LOCK, F.R.S., IN THE ANTECHAPEL OF TRINITY COLLEGE
- Plate XIX MONUMENT OF FRANCIS HOOPER, S.T.P., BY ROUBILIAC'S PUPIL, NICHOLAS READ, IN THE ANTE-CHAPEL OF TRINITY COLLEGE
- Plate XX THE DEATH-MASK OF SIR ISAAC NEWTON
- NOTE ON PLATE XVIII
Summary
This fine work, though no signature is visible, is certainly from the hand of Roubiliac. The grandly chiselled and proportioned bust in nightcap and loose embroidered gown, surrounded by the accessory palette, books and lyre, are all in his manner, and no other contemporary sculptor could achieve a work at once so massive and so convincing. It would be only natural for those who erected the monument to call in the services of the sculptor to whom Lock himself had given two commissions in the College; and it is particularly interesting to find a bust in the sculptor's familiar manner, whose most famous exemplar is the Colley Cibber at the National Gallery, at Trinity, the home of the finest examples of his creative historical genius, so that the whole gamut of his portrait manner is admirably represented in the College. The author of the dignified inscription is unknown, but the touching reference to Cotes suggests the pen of Dr Smith.
HIC JUXTA CINERES CARI COTESII,
SUOS ETIAM REQUIESCERE VOLUIT
DANIEL LOCK HUJUS COLLEGII A.M.
VIR SI QUIS ALIUS,
ARCHITECTURAE, SCULPTURAE, PICTURAE, MUSICAE,
OMNIUMQUE BONARUM ARTIUM AMANTISSIMUS:
NEC PUDET INVENTAS VITAM EXCOLUISSE PER ARTES.
OBIIT. 15 JANRII 1754. AET: 69.
Since this was written, the unique copy of Roubiliac's Sale Catalogue belonging to Mr and Mrs Finberg has been generously placed at my disposal, and among the Designs for Monuments forming Lot 72 of the second day's Sale I find one “for D. Lock Esq.,” clearly the original sketch for this important work.
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- Roubiliac's Work at Trinity College Cambridge , pp. 37 - 38Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009First published in: 1924