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An image of Hunter and dog by John Gibson RA

John Gibson RA

(Wales, Italy, England 19 Jun 1790–27 Jan 1866)

Title
Hunter and dog
Other titles:
Roman Hunter
Year
1838
Media category
Sculpture
Materials used
marble
Dimensions

119.7 x 88.8 x 54.4cm

Signature & date
Signed back of base [incised into marble], "I. GIBSON...". Not dated.
Credit
Bequest of Judge Josephson 1892
Accession number
1324
Location
15th–19th c European art
Bibliography (12)

T.S.R. Boase, English art 1800-1870, Oxford, 1959, 266. plate no. 81b

Lady Elizabeth Eastlake, Life of John Gibson R.A., Sculptor, London, 1870, 79-80.

Hans Fletcher, John Gibson; an English pupil of Thorvaldsen, 1978.

Renée Free, Art Gallery of New South Wales Handbook, 'European', pg. 36-56, Domain, 1988, 39, 40 (illus.), 41.

Rupert Gunnis, Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851, Unknown, 171-173.

Samuel Carter Hall (Editor), The Art Journal 1866, London, 1866. Sandbach and Yarborough

J.B. Hartmann, Gibson, Canova and Thorvaldsen, 1955.

Hawks Le Grice, Walks through the studii of the sculptors at Rome, 146.

Clem Lloyd and Peter Sekuless, Australia's national collections, North Ryde, 1980, 255 (illus.).

T. Matthews, The biography of John Gibson, R.A. Sculptor, Rome, London, 1911, 96, Appendix 242. 'Hunter and dog, Hunter and dog, Hafod-un-nos. Three replicas were made'

Author Unknown, Times 11 Jan 1866, 11 Jan 1866.

Editor Unknown (Editor), Art Gallery of New South Wales picturebook, Domain, 1972, 21 (colour illus.).