The William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné

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Object within Schaaf no. 2407

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

Object details

Created: 29 Apr 1840

Image size: h 15.2cm x w 19.3cm

Object Type: Paper Negative-Camera

Physical description: waxed

Inscription: in pencil lower right, April 29, 1840

Provenance:
Matilda Talbot 1934

Owner: National Science and Media Museum

Object owner number: 1937-1457

Collection: Science Museum Collection

This object is part of Schaaf no. 2407

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.

Image from the collections of the British Library (usage terms: Public Domain)

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