Description

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TL 11 SW
5/87

HARPENDEN RURAL
HATCHING GREEN
(west side)
Statue group in circular
garden 200 metres W of
Rothamsted Manor House.

GV
II

Garden statue. 1908 by Sir Charles Lawes - Wittewronge, then the
owner of Rothamsted Manor. Monumental group sculpture based on
the Farnese Bull. Hellenistic style. White marble. Entitled
the Death of Dirce it stands about 5 metres high with an oval
plinth. Three figures are in dramatic struggle with a bull,
their names inscribed in Greek on a rocky base strewn with
armour. Dirke is a captive semi-nude figure on the back of the
bull; Zithos attacks the bull with a hooked pike while Amphion
wrestles with it from below with a rope. The plinth is about one
and a half metres high and has a moulded base. It was exhibited
in Rome in 1911. (Pevsner (1977)).

Listing NGR: TL1233013106

Selected Sources

• Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977)

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