The First Mirror
Created by T. Sharp
Date: 1862
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Object type: statuette
Material: stone - marble
Description: 'I started back, / It started back; but pleased I soon returned, / Pleased it returned as soon, with answering looks
Of sympathy and love' (John Milton, Paradise Lost, iv. 462).
Citing this record
'The First Mirror', 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=msib2_1202432118, accessed 24 Sep 2023]
