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)
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]