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St Cecilia

Created by Thomas Mewburn Crook

Date: 1907
Usually date of exhibition rather than production

Object class: sculpture

Material: processed and vegetal - plaster

Notes: 'Orpheus could lead the savage race, / And trees unrooted left their place, / Sequacious of the lyre; / But bright Cecilia raised the wonder higher, / When to her organ breath was given, / An angel heard, and straight appeared / Mistaking earth for heaven' (Dryden, 'Song for St Cecilia's Day', stanza 7)

Exhibitions and other Events

Exhibited at Corporation of Manchester Art Gallery, Heaton Hall Branch, Exhibition of Works of Members and Associates of the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, Summer 1907

On sale at Corporation of Manchester Art Gallery, Heaton Hall Branch, Exhibition of Works of Members and Associates of the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, Summer 1907
£50

Sources

Catalogue of the Exhibition of Works of Members and Associates of the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, Summer 1907
1907
p. 15 (33)

Citing this record

'St Cecilia', 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_1232982800, accessed 10 Jun 2023]

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