Night
Created by (Albert) Bertel Thorvaldsen
Date: 1853
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Object type: low relief
Technique: low relief
Description: 'Night, from the original bas-relief by Thorwaldsen, in the collection of his grace, the Duke of Devonshire, at Chatsworth'. Winged female in flight, cradling two infants in her arms and owl to the right.
Notes: engraved by W. Roffe
Sources
Illustrated Catalogue of the Exhibition of Art Industry in Dublin, 1853.
1853
p. viii (sculpture listing); also print of engraving featured between pp. 12-13
Citing this record
'Night', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/object.php?id=msib3_1214921301, accessed 22 May 2013]
