The First Flight
Created by Albert Bruce Joy
Date: 1878
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Object type: animal figure
Description: Quotation listed: 'What does little birdie say, / In her nest at peep of day? / Let me fly, says little birdie, / Let me fly away' (Tennyson).
Citing this record
'The First Flight', 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_1203939891, accessed 22 Jan 2021]
