Distressed Mother
Created by John Evan Thomas
Date: 1870
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Object type: figure group
Description: Group work: 'A mother in affliction is attended by daughters who sob upon her neck.'
'The grace of the pose and the beauty of the expression are beyond praise' (catalogue, p. 14).
Exhibitions and other Events
Exhibited at Fine Art and Industrial Exhibition (Cardiff), 1870
16 August 1870 - 1 October 1870
Citing this record
'Distressed Mother', 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_1202232936, accessed 29 Sep 2023]
