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Harriet Hosmer (United States of America; Italy, b.1830, d.1908)
Puck on a toadstool


circa 1856
Sculpture
marble
86.3cm height
Bequest of Judge Josephson 1892
1167
Art Gallery of NSW, Ground Level, European Art 15th-18th Century Galleries, Court 13, Centre of room


Bibliography
Manuscript; Harriet Hosmer: her era and her art; Margaret Wendell LaBarre; 1961-1966
Periodical; Art Journal; Author Unknown; 1875, says in or about 1855
Periodical; Antiques; Susan Rensselaer; 1963, 425-6, says 1855
Periodical; Art Journal; Author Unknown; 1866, 177
Book; History of American Sculpture; Loredo Taft; 1903, 205
Exhibition catalogue; The White marmorean flock: nineteenth century American women neoclassical sculptors; N Cikovsky; 1972, no. 5, says 1856


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