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| Ancient Greek Culture Head of a Female Figure 2nd century BC limestone (discovered at the former site of Arundel House) British Museum |
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| Roman Empire Altar Fragment with Married Couple AD 100-130 marble (discovered at the former site of Arundel House) British Museum |
The two battered fragments of Roman sculpture above (only deemed worthy of "reference photos" taken with a crude flash and out of focus) were discovered on separate occasions in the nineteenth century at or near the riverside site where Arundel House had long since been demolished. Receiving the pieces, officials at the British Museum were not slow to recall the famous collection of antiquities on display in Lord Arundel's gardens two hundred years earlier. Stories are legion of the indifference of the later Howards to the gloomy lumps of stone left untended at the time of the Civil War, so the level of neglect required to see them reburied in the earth or submerged under water was not inconceivable. Still, there is no solid evidence that either or both of these pieces did not arrive in London by other means.
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| Ancient Greek Culture Head of Homerus (later known as the Arundel Sophocles) 2nd century BC bronze (formerly in the Arundel Collection) British Museum |
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| Ancient Greek Culture Head of Homerus (later known as the Arundel Sophocles) 19th century plaster cast Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden |
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| Johann Heinrich Lips Head of Homerus (later known as the Arundel Sophocles) 1775 etching Graphische Sammlung, Zentralbibliothek Zürich |
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| Jean Baron after Thomas Wood Head of Homerus (later known as the Arundel Sophocles) ca. 1790-1810 etching British Museum |
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| Jean Baron Head of Homerus (later known as the Arundel Sophocles) ca. 1790-1810 etching British Museum |
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| Anonymous Sculptor King Henry VIII ca. 1630-40 limestone (copy commissioned by Arundel) Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Egidio Moretti An Orator 1614 marble (commissioned by Arundel in Rome) Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Egidio Moretti A Senator 1614 marble (commissioned by Arundel in Rome) Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
Again, in the case of the two statues above, a sub-standard level of museum photography indicates a correspondingly low status among museum professionals regarding these generic imitation-antiquities commissioned by Lord Arundel in Rome. Egidio Moretti, the artist, was a low-end restorer with no reputation for independent work. Better artists were certainly active in Rome at this time, but a foreign heretic like Arundel, even though a nobleman of political significance, could not obtain access to sculptors already committed to princes, cardinals, the emperor and the pope.
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| Egidio Moretti Armed Man 1614 marble (commissioned by Arundel in Rome) Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Egidio Moretti Armed Man 1614 marble (commissioned by Arundel in Rome) Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Ancient Greek Culture Torso of a Youth 5th century BC marble (formerly in the Arundel Collection) Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Ancient Greek Culture Metrographical Relief 460-450 BC marble (formerly in the Arundel Collection) Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
" . . . the foot in relief measures 29.42 centimeters, while the proportional foot of the four-cubit measurement represented by the outstretched arms is 34.33 centimeters, a 7 to 6 ratio with the shorter foot."
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| Roman Empire Sphinx 1st-3rd century AD marble (formerly in the Arundel Collection) Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Daniel Mytens Portrait of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel 1630 oil on panel Temple Newsam House, Leeds |