The William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné

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Object within Schaaf no. 3832

Three statuettes and a Classical urn on a circular tabletop

Object details

Alternate titles

TALBOT ALBUM No. 10; NMeM first of pair of "Lady Elisabeth" albums
Bust of Hermes, "Eve at the Fountain" by Baily, an urn and a horse

Created: 2 Sep 1841

Image size: h 9.4cm x w 16.1cm

Paper size: h 11.2cm x w 19.1cm

Object Type: Salted Paper Print

Mount: brown paper album page

Physical description: 16.0 cm wide on the bottom edge; 9.3 cm high on the right side

Inscription: date inscribed in the negative, lower right; pencil X recto

Provenance:
Matilda Talbot 1934

Owner: National Science and Media Museum

Object owner number: 1937-0366/046

Collection: Science Museum Collection

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This object is part of Schaaf no. 3832

Three statuettes and a Classical urn on a round tabletop

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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