This group of sculpture displays the attributes of the seasons. Rusconi uses action, pose and gesture to characterise each season; for example Winter draws a cape about himself. The four marble works were placed on their onyx pedestals in the Palazzo all’Orso, where they would have been familiar to William Kent, who was in Rome between 1709 – 19. By 1730 the groups had arrived in Kensington Palace. Acquired by George II by 1750 Cat. 105