This beautiful sculpture was created in 1874 by Giovanni Battista Lombardi in Rome. It depicts the biblical story of Susannah and the Elders which appears in the Old Testament in the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches. Susannah is a Jewish wife in Babylon where she is secretly watched by two trusted and powerful elders as she bathes in her garden. The two men jump out at her and try to blackmail her by saying that they will tell her husband she has cheated on him if she doesn’t sleep with them.

Woman's Underclothing: Bras
In part four of our blog series on the history of woman's underwear we are looking at the development of the bra, how woman went from corsets to bras and we are looking at the bras we hold in our collections.