St Brigid

Created by Sophia Rosamond Praeger

Date: 1905
Usually date of exhibition rather than production

Object class: sculpture

Object type: stauette

Material: processed and vegetal - plaster

Technique: cast, modelled

Description: The seated figure of St Brigid bends her head towards a female supplicant who is shown kneeling with her head in the saint's lap.

Notes: The legend of St Brigid is especially important to the Celtic revival movement. Praeger had carved a large scale version of this work in marble c.1903 which she is reported to have been sited in her studio. She also exhibited a pottery figure of St Brigid which she had made for the Della Robbia company in 1904 under the title 'Noamh Brigid Cille Darra [St Brigid of the Convent of the Oak]. (McBrinn (207) p. 47)

Citing this record

'St Brigid', 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=ann_1283516676, accessed 28 Feb 2021]