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	Podcast:		Museum Secrets
	Episode:		Requiem for a Pug
	Category:		Arts
	Duration:		00:06:32
	Publish Date:		2021-01-05 01:00:00
	Description:		Alison Pollard, Lecturer at Oxford University, takes us to meet a very special marble table in the Ashmolean’s Arundel Collection, which was repurposed as a tombstone for a beloved pug dog. Doug the Pug – View Alison’s photograph of Doug Table top – View it here Table legs – View it here Henrietta Louisa Fermor – View a portrait / Read about her If you want to take a closer look at the sculptures in this episode, you can view them at the links above, or visit the podcast page on the Ashmolean website: ashmolean.org/museum-secrets Producer: Lucie Dawkins Presenters: Lucie Dawkins and Alison Pollard About Museum Secrets: The curators at the University of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology have been recording bite-sized tales of the wonderful, and sometimes unexpected, life of a museum. We can’t wait to share them with you! Join us every weekday for 3 weeks, from 28 December onwards, for a daily dose of cheer.
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