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An image of Puck on a toadstool by Harriet Hosmer

Harriet Hosmer

(United States of America, Italy 1830–1908)

Title
Puck on a toadstool
Place of origin
RomeItaly
Year
circa 1856
Media category
Sculpture
Materials used
marble
Dimensions

86.3cm height

Signature & date
Signed back of base, "HARRIET HOSMER...". Not dated.
Credit
Bequest of Judge Josephson 1892
Accession number
1167
Location
15th–19th c European art
Bibliography (6)

Harriet Hosmer: her era and her art 1961-1966, 1961-1966.

Art Journal 1875, 1875. says in or about 1855

Antiques 1963, 1963, 425-6. says 1855

Art Journal 1866, 1866, 177.

Loredo Taft (Author), History of American Sculpture, 1903, 205.

N Cikovsky (Author), The White marmorean flock: nineteenth century American women neoclassical sculptors, New York, 1972. no. 5, says 1856