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    Phaeton

    Description

    A small cream-colored molded plastic or resin horse figurine, depicted as standing with its front right leg raised and its tail flying behind it, suggesting the animal is in motion. The figure stands on a brown oval base.Similar in style to Horse 41

    38. Phaeton. One of the horses of Aurora, the goddess of dawn, in Greek mythology.

    Exhibit label:
    PHARTON [sic], THE HORSE OF AURORA.
    A gift from Henry [sic] Sinclair Lewis.

    Dimensions (Length x Width x Height in cm)

    4 x 1 x 4

    Personal Name Subject

    Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958; Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951

    Topical Subject

    Horses; Figurines; Mythology, Greek; Mythology, Classical

    City/Location

    Richmond (Va.)

    Genre

    figures (representations)

    Type

    Physical Object

    Digital Format

    image/jpg

    Language

    eng

    Rights

    This material is protected by copyright, and copyright is held by VCU. You are permitted to use this material in any way that is permitted by copyright. In addition, this material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Acknowledgment of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.

    Collection

    James Branch Cabell Horse Figurine Collection

    Source

    Horse 38, Phaeton, James Branch Cabell Horse Figurine collection, M 377, Box 3, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University.

    File Name

    m377_i038.jpg

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