Guilford Puteal

At the front two small processions meet: on the left is Apollo with his lyre (Augustus's patron deity) who leads Artemis (trailing her stag) and another female figure, probably their mother Leto.

Dodwell perceptively recognised its close links with a relief in the collection of the Villa Albani in Rome, catalogued in the eighteenth century by Winckelmann.

These were for display at his London house in Westminster, which he never inhabited but which contained his library and collections;[5] it was acquired with its contents on his death in 1827 by Thomas Wentworth Beaumont, an MP and member of a Yorkshire family.

It was he who moved it to Bretton Hall for display, possibly in the stables built in 1830 by George Basevi, better known as the architect of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

By 1995, a keeper of the British Museum was then able to match figures from Pomardi and von Stackelberg's drawings to Brears's slides of the sculptures.

This positive identification led to the sculpture's being moved and conserved using the British Museum's and Henry Moore Foundation expertise, but it was not exhibited at this time, despite plans to do so.

This discovery, giving it a date and context for the first time, allowed the Department of Culture, Media and Sport to stop export of the Guilford Puteal while the British Museum raised the necessary funds to acquire it.