Marble Group - Psyche discovering Cupid
Created by Edward Ambrose
Date: 1858
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Object type: figure group
Description: Following quotation appears alongside catalogue entry for this object:
'Videt omnium ferarum mitissimam dulcissimamque bestiam, ipsum illum Cupidinem formosum Deum formose Cubantem' ('Apuleii Matamorposeon', Lib. V.).
Notes: for sale
Sources
The Exhibition of the Royal Hibernian Academy, 1858 RHA Annual Exhibition Catalogues
1858
p. 18 (341)
Citing this record
'Marble Group - Psyche discovering Cupid', 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_1202904335, accessed 20 Mar 2023]
