The Village Smith: 'He goes on Sunday to the church'
Created by Benjamin Creswick
Date: 1888
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Material: processed and vegetal - plaster
Technique: cast
Description: 'Plaster cast, for bronze'
Notes: title from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 'The Village Blacksmith'
Makers, Owners and Exhibitors
Exhibited by Century Guild of Artists
One of group's submissions to the first ACES show in 1888.
Citing this record
'The Village Smith: \'He goes on Sunday to the church\'', 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_1209432219, accessed 26 Sep 2023]
