Science Unveiling Ignorance
Created by John Evan Thomas
Date: 1870
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Material: stone - marble
Description: Science represented as a sage and the Spirit of Science depicted as an angelic form. The latter is removing a veil from the head of a youth. Two other youths on the right of the work receive instruction from the Sage. There is a written description of the work on p. 13 of the catalogue: 'It is [...] in some sense an allegorical representation of what the exhibition is designed to effect for benighted minds in the Principality.'
Inscriptions
Science Unveiling Ignorance
Location: On the front of the work, on the bottom
Technique: engraved
Exhibitions and other Events
Exhibited at Fine Art and Industrial Exhibition (Cardiff), 1870
16 August 1870 - 1 October 1870
Citing this record
'Science Unveiling Ignorance', 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=msib1_1202231243, accessed 28 Nov 2020]
