Circe
Created by (Edward) Alfred Briscoe Drury
Date: 1895
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Object type: figure group
Material: metal - bronze
Notes: The work was purchased for the Leeds collection. It stood for many years in the Queen's Room (now the Ziff Gallery) before being moved outside to Park Square, where it was left to the vagaries of weather and vandalism. It has now been taken inside and is the subject of a major programme of restoration.
Exhibitions and other Events
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1895
Exhibited with the tag-line: "Instant her circling wand, the goddess waves, To hogs transforms them, and the sty receives" (Odyssey, Book X)
On sale at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1895
£650
Purchased for the Leeds collection
Citing this record
'Circe', 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=msib5_1207225202, accessed 27 Jan 2021]
