'The Massacre of the Innocents' (copy of two heads from a fragment of a cartoon)

LOCATIONSir John Soane's Museum

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THE ARTIST

John Flaxman, a leading figure in British Neoclassicism, sculpted funerary monuments and created iconic illustrations for Homer and Dante.