Narcissus
Created by Alfred Bertram Pegram
Date: 1906
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Object type: statuette
Material: metal - bronze, stone - onyx
Description: 'But, lying along upon the shaded grass, / he beholds his deceitful form with insatiable eyes; / and perishes by his own eyes.' (Ovid's Metamorphoses)
Exhibitions and other Events
Exhibited at Corporation of Manchester Art Gallery, Twenty-Fourth Autumn Exhibition, 1906
On sale at Corporation of Manchester Art Gallery, Twenty-Fourth Autumn Exhibition, 1906
£50
Citing this record
'Narcissus', 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_1233752184, accessed 07 Mar 2021]
