Design for a Monument
Created by Joseph Robinson Kirk
Date: 1853
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Object type: design
Description: 'Design for a Monument-Figure of Religion supporting with one hand an effigy of the deceased, and leaning on a cross, to which she looks for comfort in her affliction, seated on a sarcophagus, over which is thrown the funeral pall'
Notes: either a sketch or a model
Sources
The Exhibition of the Royal Hibernian Academy, 1853 RHA Annual Exhibition Catalogues
1853
p. 31 (479)
Citing this record
'Design for a Monument', 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_1202744150, accessed 30 Sep 2023]
