Venus
Created by Francis Derwent Wood
Date: 1901
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Object type: sketch model
Material: processed and vegetal - plaster, metal - bronze
Technique: bronzed, tinted
Description: 'Sketch model for niche figure'. Illustrated in catalogue. A stylised female nude stands on a pedestal, before an upright shell; her right arm extended parallel to her head, she holds the lengths of her hair in her hand. Her left arm, raised slightly, balances her weight. Perhaps executed in plaster and bronzed.
Exhibitions and other Events
Exhibited at Third Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers (London), 1901
Citing this record
'Venus', 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_1203537513, accessed 29 Sep 2023]
