The reaper
Created by Thomas Stuart Burnett
Date: 1878
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Object type: statuette
Material: processed and vegetal - plaster
Description: "A woman carrying a sickle and wheat, wearing simple clothes (a blouse and skirt and carrying her bonnet). The statuette is 960mm tall, made of plaster of paris and painted."
Description provided by Pamela Ingram.
Exhibitions and other Events
Exhibited at Eighteenth Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1879
£10
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Fifty-Second, 1878
1878
Citing this record
'The reaper', 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=msib6_1204301469, accessed 02 Jun 2023]
