Poetry - one of a series of Groups
Created by Thomas Farrell
Date: 1889
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Object type: figure group
Material: stone - limestone - portland stone
Technique: carved
Description: 'Poetry - One of a Series of Groups, executing in Portland Stone, life-size, for the new Museum of Science and Art, Kildare Street'. Quotation from 1889 catalogue: 'Bright-eyed fancy, hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn, Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn'.
Citing this record
'Poetry - one of a series of Groups', 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_1206703884, accessed 29 May 2023]
