A Statue of Samson Slaying the Philistine

The original marble statue of this group by Giambologna is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and first came to England in 1623. There was a version of it in the garden of Chiswick House by the 1720s, belonging to the third Earl of Burlington, and it is apparently this version which is now in the Rose Garden at Chatsworth, moved there with other garden statues from Chiswick in the 1920s.

Samson Slaying the Philistine, this lead statue is set in the Rose Garden hedge