Good quality, Italian late 19th century Grand Tour patinated bronze library model of the Emperor Augustus of Prima Porta, after the antique original discovered in 1863 at the Villa of Livia and now housed in the in the Braccio Nuovo in the Vatican Museum in Rome. Finely detailed example presented on an associated Serpentina di Monteferrato marble classical column viewing base with carved vines and grapes. Italy, Rome, circa 1890.Augustus on plinth: H 56cm, Augustus H 35cm, plinth: H 21cmBased in London, we are dealers in fine decorative antiques from the 18th and 19th centuries. We specialise in this era of enlightenment, neoclassicism and the Grand Tour, with its far reaching influence on style and taste in Britain, Continental Europe and beyond: elegance in the age of Napoleon. Our extensive stock covers all aspects of this period and decorative antiques influenced by the period. We constantly source new, beautiful items and upload to our site regularly. We are first and fore...