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An image of Love's bondage by William Robert Colton RA PRBS

William Robert Colton RA PRBS

(England 25 Dec 1867–13 Nov 1921)

Title
Love's bondage
Other titles:
Motherhood
Mother and child
Year
1911
Media category
Sculpture
Materials used
marble
Dimensions

76.2cm height

Signature & date
Signed and dated, "W Robert Colton ARA/ March 1911".
Credit
Purchased 1915
Accession number
751
Location
Not on display
Bibliography (7)

Susan Beattie (active 1980; 1998) (Author), The New Sculpture, London, 1983, 240. "fulsome sentiments"

Art Gallery of New South Wales Quarterly Jan 1972, Jan 1972, (illus.).

Royal Society of British Sculptors (Author), Modern British Sculpture, 1922. as 'Mother and child'. Artist listed as deceased and as past president

Kineton Parkes (Author), Sculpture of to-day, London, 1921, 104. says 'Love's Bondage' is in Sydney

The art-journal 1911, 1911, 177.

Royal Academy of Arts (England, estab. 1768) (Author), Royal Academy pictures and sculptures, 1911, London, 1911, 120. as 'Love's bondage'

Magazine of Art 1903, 1903, 302.

Exhibition history (2)

Paris Salon, 1911, Paris Salon, 1911–1911.

Royal Academy of Arts, 1911, Royal Academy of Arts, 1911–1911.