The Kitten
Created by Herbert Hampton
Date: 1899
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Object type: figure group
Material: processed and vegetal - plaster
Description: Half-length figure group. A woman with her arms around two children: a boy to her left and a girl to her right. The boy has his left hand around a kitten, that reaches its paw accross to the girl. She offers it her finger, tentatively, while the others look on.
Notes: illustrated in catalogue plates (n.p.)
Exhibitions and other Events
Exhibited at Second Exhibition of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers (London), 1899
Citing this record
'The Kitten', 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_1203105880, accessed 20 May 2022]