Statuette - Ariadne deploring the departure of Theseus
Created by Joseph Robinson Kirk
Date: 1852
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Object type: statuette
Notes: The following quotation is listed directly below the title of the object: 'Like Bacchus's raving priests sometimes I go: / With such wild haste, with hair dishevel'd so; / Then on some craggy rock sit silent down, / As cold, unmoved, and senseless as the stone.'
Sources
The Exhibition of the Royal Hibernian Academy, 1852 RHA Annual Exhibition Catalogues
1852
p. 21 (383)
Citing this record
'Statuette - Ariadne deploring the departure of Theseus', 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=msib3_1202485116, accessed 20 Jan 2021]