Age
Created by James Nesfield Forsyth
Date: 1895
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object type: bust
Technique: bronzed, tinted
Description: A marble version of this work was acquired by William Hesketh Lever, first Lord Leverhulme, and is now in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool. It was later shown at the Royal Academy in 1901 and then at the Paris Salon in 1906. A companion work entitled 'Head of a Baby' was also bought by Lever from an exhibition of British sculpture at Waring and Gillow in 1916 but the location of this is unknown.
Exhibitions and other Events
Exhibited at Corporation of Manchester Art Gallery, Thirteenth Autumn Exhibition, 1895
On sale at Corporation of Manchester Art Gallery, Thirteenth Autumn Exhibition, 1895
On sale by commission in marble for £40
Citing this record
'Age', 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_1223055200, accessed 30 Sep 2023]
