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Field Visit
Date 29 September 2001
Event ID 613908
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/613908
Over-life sized statue of Hygeia facing east, standing within the Roman Doric columns of a round temple. She is elaborately dressed in a contrapposto pose with her right leg bent. Her drapery is folded across her hips and cascades over her left shoulder. Beneath a diadem, her hair is twisted back into an elaborate braid falling down behind her long neck. She looks slightly to her right, a cup held in her right hand, while her left hand holds an urn on its side on top of a short column. A snake coils around this column and drinks from the urn.
The temple, based on Tivoli, was designed in 1788 by Alexander Nasmyth for Law Lord Gardenstone in 1888, and built by John Wilson. A statue of Hygeia, cast by Coade in London, was created on 22 September 1791.
Over the years the temple fell into disrepair, but in 1887 The Builder reported that 'through the munificence of Mr William Nelson, publisher' it had been restored, and 'the domed chamber decorated in mosaic and ultramarine and gold.' A new statue of Hygeia was to be placed under the open canopy (1).
Design period : 1788-1791 / 1887
Information from Public Monuments and Sculpture Association (PMSA Work Ref : EDIN1486)
