Master Tom
Created by Joseph Durham
Date: 1874
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Object type: statue
Description: companion piece to Durham's Miss Ellie
Notes: 'When that tremendous old lady Be-done-as-you-did came to talk to him, he stuck his thumb in his mouth, and even called her an ugly old thing - but he grew horribly frightened when she threatened to send him to the other end of nowhere' (Kingsley's Water Babies)
Exhibitions and other Events
Exhibited at Royal Manchester Institution, Exhibition of the Works of Modern Artists, 1874
Citing this record
'Master Tom', 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_1227184856, accessed 22 Mar 2023]
