The Dolphin Race
Created by Sophia Rosamond Praeger
Date: 1937
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Object type: plaque
Material: processed and vegetal - plaster, image making materials - paint
Notes: Originally commissioned in 1905 by George Coffey, intended to be part of overmantle for Coffey house in Dublin. Plaque exhibited in 1937 most likely created in 1930s after original version.
Exhibitions and other Events
Exhibited at Exhibition of The Ulster Academy of Arts, 1937
1937
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1938
25 April 1938 - 11 June 1938
£4 10s.
On sale at Exhibition of The Ulster Academy of Arts, 1937
1937
£4 10s.
Sources
Catalogue of The Ulster Academy of Arts Exhibition in The Municipal Arts Gallery, Botanic Gardens, Stranmillis Road Belfast, 1937
1937
p. 24 (229)
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the One Hundred and Ninth Exhibition, 1938
1938
p. 29 (378)
Sophia Rosamond Praeger 1867-1954 Art, Literature, Science
2007
p. 49
Citing this record
'The Dolphin Race', 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_1257177384, accessed 23 Sep 2023]
