{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O72775"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O72775/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2006AM6678/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2006AM6678/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"high","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2006AM6678","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":{"_iiif_pres":"https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collections/O72775/manifest.json","_alt_iiif_pres":[]}},"record":{"systemNumber":"O72775","accessionNumber":"517-1868","objectType":"Bust","titles":[{"title":"Unknown elderly man","type":"named collection"}],"summaryDescription":"The name of the sitter for this terracotta portrait bust of an elderly man is unknown, although it has recently been suggested that it could be a portrait of the prison reformer John Howard (1726-1790), whose monument John Bacon the Elder executed for St Paul's Cathedral (information supplied by Dr Sarah Burnage, University of York; October 2008). The work was attributed to Bacon when it was acquired by the Museum in 1868.\n\nJohn Bacon the Elder (1740-1799), a highly prolific and successful sculptor, one of his most celebrated works being the monument to Lord Chatham (Pitt the Elder) in Westminster Abbey. Bacon also designed sculpture to be made in Coadestone, an artificial stone which was widely used for garden and architectural sculpture in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. His son, John Bacon the Younger (1777-1859) was also a sculptor, and specialised in tombs using coloured marbles. ","physicalDescription":"","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Bacon, John (the elder)","id":"A8107"},"association":{"text":"sculptor","id":"AAT25181"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"terracotta","id":"AAT10669"}],"techniques":[],"materialsAndTechniques":"Terracotta","categories":[{"text":"Sculpture","id":"THES48896"},{"text":"Portraits","id":"THES48906"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"SCP","id":"THES48600"},"images":["2006AM6678"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"001","id":"THES333440"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Bust","id":"AAT47457"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"England","id":"x28826"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1770 - ca. 1799","earliest":"1765-01-01","latest":"1803-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"60.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Purchased from Mr Pratt in 1868 for £8.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Bust, terracotta, unknown elderly man, Engllish, ca. 1770-1799","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Bilbey, Diane and Trusted Marjorie. <font -u>British Sculpture 1470 to 2000. A Concise Catalogue of the Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum.</font> London, 2002, p. 46., cat. no. 67"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Inventory of Art Objects acquired in the Year 1868. <font -u>List of Objects in the Art Division, South Kensington, Acquired During the Year 1868, Arranged According to the Dates of Acquisition.</font> London: Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode for H.M.S.O., p. 55"}],"production":"Attributed to John Bacon the Elder","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["517-1868"],"accessionNumberNum":"517","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1868,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2026-09-29","recordCreationDate":"2003-01-09","availableToBook":true}}