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Abstract
English Heritage has recently recreated a statue which is known to have stood in the centre of the walled and paved courtyard in front of the north range of Whitby Abbey House, built between 1671 and 1674. This article considers the evidence for the statue's form and location and concludes that it was a copy of the famous first-century BC Hellenistic sculpture known as the Borghese Gladiator, now in the Musée du Louvre. It records other copies in English gardens and considers the motives of Sir Hugh Cholmley, who set it up at Whitby.