A COPELAND PARIAN FIGURE OF CORINNA, THE LYRIC MUSE after the model by William Brodie, the young woman wearing a folded drape across her thighs, sandals and with a wreath of myrtle in her hair, holding a pencil to write on a scroll on her lap, seated on rocks with a lyre at her side, on an oval base (top of pencil lacking, tip of lyre re-stuck, chips to base), impressed marks, circa 1857

A COPELAND PARIAN FIGURE OF CORINNA, THE LYRIC MUSE after the model by William Brodie, the young woman wearing a folded drape across her thighs, sandals and with a wreath of myrtle in her hair, holding a pencil to write on a scroll on her lap, seated on rocks with a lyre at her side, on an oval base (top of pencil lacking, tip of lyre re-stuck, chips to base), impressed marks, circa 1857

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A COPELAND PARIAN FIGURE OF CORINNA, THE LYRIC MUSE after the model by William Brodie, the young woman wearing a folded drape across her thighs, sandals and with a wreath of myrtle in her hair, holding a pencil to write on a scroll on her lap, seated on rocks with a lyre at her side, on an oval base (top of pencil lacking, tip of lyre re-stuck, chips to base), impressed marks, circa 1857
21¼in. (54cm.) high

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After a marble first exhibited at the Glasgow Royal Academy in 1855 and, later, at the Royal Scottish Academy in 1863. Cf. Paul Atterbury, (ed.), op. cit., p. 143, Fig. 497

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