Early Sorrow
Created by Patrick MacDowell
Date: 1853
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Object type: statue
Technique: carved
Description: 'Early Sorrow, from the statue by P. Mac Dowell, R.A., in the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations'.
Standing female nude, with drapery on torso, and dead bird held to her breast; eyes down cast.
Notes: Engraved by W. Roffe.
Sources
Illustrated Catalogue of the Exhibition of Art Industry in Dublin, 1853.
1853
p. viii (sculpture listing); print from engraving also featured between pp. 36-37.
Citing this record
'Early Sorrow', 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_1214923638, accessed 29 May 2023]
