Daphne
Created by George Frederic Watts
Date: 1922
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Object type: bust
Material: wood
Description: Bust of female nude, with leaves at base and extending towards her right shoulder. Long, wavy hair gathered at nape of neck; head turned to the lower right to present profile view.
Notes: 'Companion piece to Clytie, not previously exhibited' (ISSPG catalogue, 1922). Illustrated in The Sphere, 13 May 1922, where it is listed as a recent auction purchase for Mr Francis Howard.
Exhibitions and other Events
Exhibited at The Annual Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers (Twenty-eighth London Exhibition), 1922
shown in Octagon Room
Sources
Catalogue of the Twenty-eighth London Exhibition, 1922, held at the Grafton Galleries, Grafton Street, W.1
1922
p.18 (58).
International Society press cuttings, from spring 1921
1921 (Circa)
favourable review of Daphne in The Sphere, 13 May 1922
Citing this record
'Daphne', 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_1205539139, accessed 25 Sep 2023]
