The William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné

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Object within Schaaf no. 4164

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

Object details

Image size: h 13.8cm x w 16.6cm

Paper size: h 18.8cm x w 23.2cm

Object Type: Salted Paper Print

Physical description: brush marks visible where chemical coating was applied

Provenance:
Victoria & Albert Museum, 2017
National Science and Media Museum, 2003 to 2017
Royal Photographic Society, number 025178
Royal Photographic Society, old number 85

Owner: Victoria and Albert Museum

Object owner number: RPS.99-2017

Collection: Royal Photographic Society Collection

This object is part of Schaaf no. 4164

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.