Details
2914 in. (74.3 cm.) high
Inscribed 'J. GOTT. FT' on the left side of the base.
Provenance
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 8 December 1988, lot 275.
Anonymous sale, Doyle, New York, 28 October 2020, lot 374, as Marble Group of a Seated Young Girl Embracing a Maltese Dog.
Exhibited
Leeds, Stable Court Exhibition Galleries; Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, Joseph Gott, 1786-1860, sculptor, 23 August-3 December 1972, p. 54, 69, no. G122a, as Miss Dames Embracing a Maltese Dog.
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Correspondence from Joseph Gott (1786-1860) to his daughter in Rome, dated 16 September 1839, almost certainly referring to the plaster model for this grouping demonstrates the artist's pains taken in the conception process: '... see that the plaster Model of Mrs Dames little girl embracing a Maltese dog is put into the farthest room... & locked up for no one to enter for I have to work at the Dog before it is seen...' (Joseph Gott, 1786-1860, sculptor, p. 69, letter 40).

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