The William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné

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Object within Schaaf no. 2575

Statuette of Edward Hodges Baily's, "Eve at the Fountain", 1 minute in the camera

Object details

Created: 2 Apr 1841

Image size: h 7.3cm x w 5.4cm

Object Type: Paper Negative-Camera

Mount: sheet of tissue paper

Inscription: in pencil, verso, ca 1' [about 1 minute exposure]; in pencil, verso, 2 April /41 [2 April 1841]; diagonal pencil line, recto, possibly for later trimming

Owner: Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History

Object owner number: 1995.0206.053

Collection: Photographic History Collection

Supporting images

This object is part of Schaaf no. 2575

Statuette of Edward Hodges Baily's, "Eve at the Fountain", 1 minute in the camera

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.

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