A travel quiz #4 Answer provided to save Walter's sanity

The original Il Porcellino statue is estimated to be over 500 years old, and was unearthed in Rome after having stood for over 100 years in the Uffizi Galleries in Florence. The Sydney Hospital Il Porcellino, which is a copy of the original, was presented to Hospital in l968 by the Marchessa Clarissa Torrigiani in memory of her father and brother – Dr Thomas Fiaschi who died in 1928 and Dr Piero Fiaschi who died in 1948. Both had been renowned surgeons at the hospital.

In 1962, five copies of Tacca's sculpture were cast by the Florence foundry, Fonderia Ferdinando Marinelli. Thanks to the generosity of Dr. Henry Crapo one of these was donated to the University of Waterloo in 1978. The four other copies of the boar are located in Sydney, Australia; California; Florence; and in Butchart Gardens, Victoria, B.C.