The Dawn of Thought - Statuette
Created by George Frederick Halse
Date: 1862
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Object type: statuette
Description: Quotation listed: 'As glancing lights at break of day / May bode a morn serene and mild, / So, early glimpses will betray / The future Dreamer in the Child. / The peeping bud denotes the flower, / The fragrance and the fruit it bears; / So may we trace in childhood's hour / The promises of future years'
Exhibitions and other Events
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1862
1862
On sale at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1862
1862
£3 3s.
Sources
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the Thirty-Fourth Exhibition, 1862
1862
p. 27 (478)
Citing this record
'The Dawn of Thought - Statuette', 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_1203529756, accessed 23 Jan 2020]
