The William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné

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Object within Schaaf no. 1780

Statuette of "Eve at the Fountain" after Edward Hodges Baily

Object details

Created: Between 1 Jan 1834 and 31 Dec 1850

Image size: h 18.8cm x w 23.2cm

Object Type: Salted Paper Print

Owner: Private owner (on deposit at Bodleian Libraries)

Object owner number: MS. 21088 photogr. 1/44

Collection: Horatia Gaisford Collection Of Talbot Photographic Materials And Ephemera

Supporting images

This object is part of Schaaf no. 1780

Statuette of "Eve at the Fountain" after Edward Hodges Baily

Keywords: Sculpture

Baily's best known work is probably his sculpture of Nelson which graces the top of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, London. However, "Eve at the Fountain" was the work that made Baily famous at the age of 34.

A large plaster model for the finished sculpture is held at the Victoria & Albert Museum.

The finished marble statue was purchased for the Bristol Museum & Art Gallery in 1826.

Baily and his work is well represented in the online resource, Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851-1951.