Cupid raising Psyche from the soporific vision
Created by Edward Ambrose
Date: 1858
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Object type: figure group
Material: stone - marble
Technique: carved
Description: 'Companion Group in Marble'. Following quotation appears alongside catalogue entry for this object: 'Psychen accurrit suam; detersoque somno curiose et rursum in pristinam pyxidis sedem recondito, Psychen innoxio punctulo suae sagittae suscitat. Apuleii Metamorposeon, Lib. VI.'
Exhibitions and other Events
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1858
1858
£105
for sale
Sources
The Exhibition of the Royal Hibernian Academy, 1858 RHA Annual Exhibition Catalogues
1858
p. 17 (335)
Citing this record
'Cupid raising Psyche from the soporific vision', 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_1202902184, accessed 26 Mar 2023]
