A Waif
Created by Sophia Rosamond Praeger
Date: 1905
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Material: metal - bronze
Technique: cast
Notes: Considered by Praeger to be one of her most important works - she offered it as a representation of her work to both the Belfast City Corporation & Dublin Municipal Gallery. Given to Hugh Lane in 1906.
Exhibitions and other Events
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1906
£20
Exhibited at The Belfast Art Society Annual Exhibition, 1908
1908
On sale at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1906
£30
exhibited piece offered at £30 (possibly a plaster cast) and a bronze version at £130
On sale at The Belfast Art Society Annual Exhibition, 1908
1908
£40
Sources
Catalogue of The Belfast Art Society Annual Exhibition in The Municipal Art Gallery, 1908
1908
p. 15 (336)
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the Seventy-Seventh Annual Exhibition, 1906 RHA Annual Exhibition Catalogues
1906
p. 29 (387)
Sophia Rosamond Praeger 1867-1954 Art, Literature, Science
2007
p. 46
Citing this record
'A Waif', 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_1218806912, accessed 29 May 2023]
