The William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné

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Object within Schaaf no. 4207

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

Object details

Image size: h 17.2cm x w 19.3cm

Paper size: h 18.4cm x w 22.6cm

Object Type: Salted Paper Print

Watermark: J Whatman Turkey Mill 1839

Provenance:
Matilda Talbot 1934

Owner: National Science and Media Museum

Object owner number: 1937-2820

Collection: Science Museum Collection

This object is part of Schaaf no. 4207

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.