COLLECTION NAME:
The John Rylands Library
Record
Image Number:
JRL0802262dc
Reference Number:
JRL/6/1/7/3
Image Title:
Maquette of vestibule statue
Date Created:
c1893
Description:
Original black and white photograph of a clay model of three statues, a prototype by the Manchester sculptor John Cassidy for the vestibule statue of the John Rylands Library. Mrs Rylands rejected this early design, however, saying "the present appearance of three statues in a line all one height and size looks to me anything but striking and too much like the statues one sees in a cathedral." She did not want the figures to be set in niches, but to stand proud. Having no aesthetic use for this photograph, she used it to stiffen a bundle of book lists, and it is badly faded and torn.
Subject:
John Rylands Library
Subject:
Sculpture
Category of Material:
Archives
Category of Material:
Photography
Sub-Category:
Analogue photography
Support:
Card
Time Period Covered:
19th Century CE
Item Height:
196 mm
Item Width:
156 mm
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Rights Holder - Image:
University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights:
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2007-11-02
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by Gten
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2008-01
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Maquette of vestibule statue
