O./11a.5/2
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Pièce
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[19th cent.?]
Fait partie de Manuscripts in Wren Class O
Claims that the statue 'when first executed by Roubiliac and before it left his Studio, had the lips closed'; this was first noted in the piece on Byron's Childe Harold in the Eclectic Review, whose editor Josiah Conder had married Roubiliac's niece [actually, his granddaughter]. 'It is likely that the story was traditional in the family, tho never heard of in this place'.
Signed 'F. T. Cambridge'.