Clasped Hands of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, model 1853

Not on View

Medium

bronze

Dimensions

overall: 8.3 x 21 x 10.8 cm (3 1/4 x 8 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift in honor of Margaret and Raymond Horowitz

Accession Number

2005.41.1

Artists / Makers

Harriet Goodhue Hosmer (sculptor) American, 1830 - 1908

Image Use

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Inscription

on the end of the man's hand, in script: HANDS.OF.ROBERT / AND / Elizabeth Barrett Browning / cast By / Harriet Hosmer / Rome 1853; on the end of the woman's hand, in script: Copyright

Provenance

Private collection, United States; gift 2005 to NGA.

Associated Names

Anonymous

Exhibition History

2009: The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850-1900, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, 2009-2010, unnumbered catalogue, fig. 4 of chapter "Sculpture and Privacy."

Bibliography

1912: Carr, Cornelia, ed. Harriet Hosmer: Letters and Memories. New York, 1912: 92.

1991: Sherwood, Dolly. Harriet Hosmer, American Sculptor, 1830-1908. Columbia and London, 1991: 92.

2009: Cronin, Patricia. Harriet Hosmer, Lost and Found: A Catalogue Raisonné. Milan/New York, 2009: 30-33.

2019: Fein, Katherine. "'The Sense of Nearness': Harriet Hosmer's Clasped Hands and the Materials and Bodies of Nineteenth-Century Life Casting." British Art Studies Issue 14 (November 19): https://www.britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/issue-index/issue-14/hosmers-clasped-hands#, NGA version mentioned in footnote 8.