Lesbia
Created by George Frederick Halse
Date: 1859
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Object type: single figure
Material: stone - marble
Description: Quotation listed: 'Lesbia hath a beaming eye, / But no one knows for whom it beameth; / Right and left its arrows fly' (Thomas Moore)
Exhibitions and other Events
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1859
1859
On sale at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1859
£52 10s.
marble version
On sale at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1859
£2
plaster version
Citing this record
'Lesbia', 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_1203437836, accessed 30 May 2023]
