Roman portrait head of the empress Sallustia Orbiana

Slightly gazing upward, with arched brows over finely lidded articulated eyes, small mouth lightly drilled at the corners, her hair summarily dressed, combed in parallel rows running from the forehead to the back, unfinished work, probably due to the damnatio memoriae of the wife of Emperor Severus Alexander, on socled mount

Note
Philip Webb, born in Oxford, was friend and colleague of William Morris. They were both the most important architects of the Arts and Crafts-movement in London and founder of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings in 1877.

Provenance
Philipp Speakman Webb (1831-1915), Milford House, Surrey
London Art Market, 1990

Publication
Gustavo Traversari, Nuovo ritratto die Orbiana un tempo nella collezione di Philip Webb, in: Rivista di archeologia, anno XX, 1996, 70-82, Taf. 1-25