The Curse
Created by Edward Bowring Stephens
Date: 1851
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Object type: sculpture
Inscriptions
[...] children thou shalt bring / In sorrow forth. [...] / In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, / Till thou return unto the ground.
Notes: inscription from John Milton's Paradise Lost
Exhibitions and other Events
Exhibited at Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations (London), 1851
1851
Citing this record
'The Curse', 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=msib7_1206710247, accessed 27 Sep 2023]
