Paolo and Francesca
Created by John Hughes
Date: 1900
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Object type: figure group
Description: '[...] in bronze or marble'. Quotation also listed: 'While one spirit spoke, / The other wept bitterly'.
Notes: Hughes was promoting the work for sale in either medium, so perhaps a model was exhibited.
Exhibitions and other Events
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1900
1900
On sale at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1900
£212 10s.
The work offered for sale in either bronze or marble, but only one price listed.
Citing this record
'Paolo and Francesca', 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_1204545090, accessed 29 May 2023]
