Lead with metal crozier (H. 193cm; W. 112cm; D. 66cm)
Literature: C. Cibber, An Apology for the Life of Mr Colley Cibber (London, 1740); G. Vertue, Note Books, Volume 1 (The Walpole Society, vol. 18, 1929-30), p. 91; John Milner, The history, civil and ecclesiastical, & survey of the antiquities of Winchester (Winchester, 1801), pp. 126-27; Charles Ball, An Historical Account of Winchester with Descriptive Walks (Winchester, 1818), p. 165; Harald Faber, Caius Gabriel Cibber (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1926), p. 18; Winchester College Archaeological Society, Winchester College: Its history, buildings and customs (Winchester, 1926), p. 164; R. Custance (ed.), Winchester College: Sixth-Centenary Essays (Oxford, 1982), plate 18; M.G. Sullivan, ‘Brass sculpture and the ideology of bronze in Britain 1660-1851’, The Sculpture Journal, vol. 14:1 (December 2005), p. 35; I. Roscoe, A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain (New Haven and London, 2009), p. 276; D. Roberts and S. Foster, ‘Colley Cibber and Winchester College’, Notes and Queries, 67:3 (September 2020), p. 396
Provenance: Given to Winchester College by the artist in 1697