Sculpture
Samson slaying a Philistine
Details
- Date
- 2018
- Author / Artist
- Cliveden Conservation
- Dimensions
- 400cm
- Material
- Portland cement
- Catalogue number
- SHPT.41
- Current location
- South Portico
Samson slaying a Philistine, copied from garden sculptures at St Paul’s Walden, originally at Stowe. The motif of the piece, ‘Samson Slaying a Philistine’, is taken from an episode described in the Bible, in the Old Testament’s Book of Judges: ‘And he (Samson) found a new jawbone of an ass, and put his hand and took it and slew a thousand men therewith’.
