A 19thC Black Painted Plaster Library Bust of Demosthenes; Wormington Grange sub-Architectural & Garden and the whole is stable

and the whole is stable

Showing just the right doses of character

The jacket he wears is a very simplified version of the usual jacket

his birth date is uncertain: suggestions range from 462 to 512

A 19thC Black Painted Plaster Library Bust of Demosthenes; Wormington Grange sub-Architectural & Garden and the whole is stableOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Mid VictorianProvenance: Wormington Grange, EnglandDate: c. 1870 90Width: 12Depth: 8Height: 20. 5 Base Diameter: 7. 75 (all at extremities)The very decorative plaster portrait bust of Demosthenes (384322 BCE), in his prime years, modelled after the Greek original held at the Museo Nazionale in Naples, sometimes described as portraying Lysimachus or Aratus, the head turned to dexter, above a waisted circular socle; inscribed