Sculpture
- Title:
- Joe's Farewell
- Object Name:
- Sculpture
- Object ID:
- 1966.579
- Creator:
- French, Daniel Chester (1850-1931)
Sculptor - Date:
- 1872
- Description:
- Sculpture, "Joe's Farewell." Porcelain. Young man and woman standing in front of a brick forge, man at right; both facing center front, with heads tipped slightly down. Forge and chimney truncated at rear. Keys, locks and other small objects hanging on chimney face; tongs on hearth; toby pitcher precariously perched on shelf at left of chimney. Hammer, locks, and other items on floor near forge. Anvil with hammer on top, supported on block behind girl at left. Knapsack behind man on floor at right. Rectangular base, 1.75" high, with rounded corners and large scale crosshatching on upper surface representing paved floor. Inscriptions, all in upper case letters: "DOLLY VARDEN AND JOE WILLET / JOE'S FAREWELL," on front surface of base; and "D.C.FRENCH.," at rear left on vertical surface of base.
- Material:
- Ceramic
Porcelain - Parian - Dimensions:
- H-9.75 W-7.75 D-5.75 inches
- Provenance:
- Depicting a scene from Charles Dickens' novel "Barnaby Rudge," this is among the earliest surviving works of Daniel Chester French (1850-1931), sculptor born in Exeter, NH. Modeled c. 1872 in Massachusetts, apparently on the order of Plympton & Co., Boston crockery and china dealers, who had Parian versions of French groups produced in England.
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
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