A Boy at Play
Created by William Goscombe John
Date: 1897
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Object type: single figure
Material: metal - bronze
Description: A nude figure of a boy, with arms outstretched in the act of balancing, his right foot being pointed to a knuckle-bone upon the ground.
Notes: A half-life-size replica of original bronze in the Chantrey Collection, Tate Gallery (in 1913-14). Exhibited at the Rome International Fine Art Exhibition, 1911.
Exhibitions and other Events
Exhibited at Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Cymru National Museum of Wales Exhibition of Works by Certain Modern Artists of Welsh Birth or Extraction, 1913
5 December 1913 - 28 February 1914
lent by Henry Webb, MP
Citing this record
'A Boy at Play', 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_1203344715, accessed 18 Jan 2021]