Sleeping Nymph

Artwork: Sleeping Nymph

Category: Sculpture

Artist: E. H. Bailey

Created: 1850

Material: Marble

Dimensions: ?

Location: Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, BS, UK

Photography: LillynisthArtist’s

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A shiny marble statue of a woman sleeping might be pressed into being an image of ‘desire’, but for my money is, again, much better described as an aspect of dream.

Militating against the description of ‘desire’ is the simple fact that she is fully clothed. After all, much of Victorian poetry, under the influence of Tennyson, was similarly dreamy, escapist, seeking marmoreal perfection aimed the filthy clatter of the Industrial Revolution.” (astrotella)

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