48 plaster casts (each approximately 60 x 240 x 5mm.), some bearing the date 1822 or 1823, housed in eight wooden shelves (6 per shelf) in a custom-made wooden cabinet (with pencil note in pencil under the top drawer 'A. Holmes, cabinet maker, 2 Compton St.'), some minor stains to casts, one cast has wear to the faces of three figures, the drawers are slightly worn (and one small handle is missing), the top of the cabinet is loose

There are some minor stains to casts, one cast has wear to the faces of three figures, the drawers are slightly worn (and one small handle is missing), the top of the cabinet is loose
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The Scottish sculptor John Henning (1771-1851) took 12 years to complete his models of the Parthenon and Phigaleian friezes and executed not only small plaster copies but also the large friezes based on them for the Athenaeum club in 1830.