Sabrina Thrown into the Severn
Created by William Calder Marshall
Date: 1884
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Object type: group
Material: metal - bronze
Notes: Exhibited 1884 with quotation: 'Guendoloena commanded Sabre to be thrown into the river now called the Severn, and published an edict through all Britain that the river should bear the damsel's name. So that to this day the river is called in the British tongue Sabren, which by the corruption of the name is, in another language, Sabrina' (Geoffrey's Chronicle)
Exhibitions and other Events
Exhibited at Corporation of Manchester Art Gallery, Royal Institution, Second Autumn Exhibition, 1884
On sale at Corporation of Manchester Art Gallery, Royal Institution, Second Autumn Exhibition, 1884
£1260
Citing this record
'Sabrina Thrown into the Severn', 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_1220904992, accessed 29 May 2023]
