A seated nymph

Details

JOHN LAWLOR (BRITISH, 1820-1901)
A seated nymph
Signed and dated 'I. LAWLOR SC. / LONDON 1859.'
marble
53 ½ in. (136 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

The subject could be Titania, queen of the fairies, from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream which was exhibited by Lawlor in marble at the Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition in 1861 and priced at £200. Seated bashfully on a rock, her robe around her, the moment depicted could be when Titania, under Oberon's spell, awakes and fails in love with the 'ass-head' Bottom, exclaiming 'What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?'.

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