THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART BULLETIN | VOLUME 80 | NUMBER 3
The Gosford Wellhead: An Ancient Roman Masterpiece: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v.80, no. 3 (Winter, 2023)
48 pages
59 illustrations
This title is in print.
The Gosford Wellhead is one of the most remarkable works of Roman sculpture to enter The Met collection in decades. This Bulletin traces the marble wellhead’s surprising journey to New York, beginning with its discovery in Ostia, Rome’s ancient port, in 1797, and including a long residence in Gosford House, one of Scotland’s most majestic private homes. The authors closely examine the marble wellhead’s superbly carved imagery of two Greek myths related to water: Narcissus and Echo and Hylas and the Nymphs. Uncovering impressive early restorations and featuring a modern technical analysis, this Bulletin provides a focused study of a singular masterpiece whose cultural history weaves from ancient Rome to the present day.
Met Art in Publication
2nd century
late 14th–early 15th century
Euainetos
400–390 BCE
Camille Corot
1836
1st–early 3rd century CE
Orchard Painter
ca. 470–460 BCE
late 5th–early 4th century BCE