Blackberry Picking: The Thorn
Created by Edward Bowring Stephens
Date: 1870
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Object type: figure group
Description: A young damsel is attempting to extract from her plump hand a thorn which an ungrateful blackberry bramble had embedded. The blackberries, in white plaster, lie at her feet.
Notes: Quotation listed in catalogue: 'The guarded sweets you seek, fair maid, / Were better far forborne; / Yet well, if through life's briary path, / Time brings no keener thorn.'
Exhibitions and other Events
Exhibited at Fine Art and Industrial Exhibition (Cardiff), 1870
16 August 1870 - 1 October 1870
Citing this record
'Blackberry Picking: The Thorn', 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_1202301283, accessed 02 Dec 2020]
