The Butterfly
Created by Francis (Frank) Wiles
Date: 1928
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Material: stone - marble
Description: reclining woman - small butterfly, originally attached to figure's hand, now missing
Inscriptions
\'F. WILES LARNE IRELAND\'
Location: Side of base
Exhibitions and other Events
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1929
£65
Exhibited at 47th Annual Exhibition of The Belfast Art Society, 1928
On sale at 47th Annual Exhibition of The Belfast Art Society, 1928
£100
Sources
A Catalogue of the Permanent Collection. Volume 2, Twentieth-Century Sculpture, 1988 Ulster Museum publication
1988
pp. 103-104
Catalogue of The 47th Annual Exhibition of The Belfast Art Society in The Municipal Art Gallery, Belfast, 1928
1928
p. 19 (378)
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the One Hundredth Exhibition, 1929
1929
p. 32 (451)
Citing this record
'The Butterfly', 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_1256029631, accessed 26 Mar 2023]
