 Advertisement for exhibition of Hughes' work at Amory Hall, Boston, ca.1840s
from Wikipedia article about Robert Ball Hughes
The advertisement above is a broadside. No image of the statue or other information about it is available yet. The statue was possibly based on the Young Neapolitan Fisherboy Playing with a Tortoise, 1831-1833, by Francois Rude (1784-1855) at the Louvre. Similar works were done by several other artists in the 1800's including the Neapolitan Fisherboy, ca 1861, by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827-1875) at the National Gallery of Art. Neapolitan means "of, or pertaining to Naples, Italy." Amory Hall was on Washington St., Boston, MA.
From Good Old Dorchester by William Dana Orcutt. Cambridge: John Wilson & Son, UP, 1893, p. 385:
 According to the Boston Evening Transcript, Tuesday, November 13, 1849, p. 2, column 4:
Ball Hughes entered The Sixth Exhibition of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association at Faneuil and Quincy Halls in the City of Boston September, 1850. Under the Fine Arts category on p. 147: “1214. (Robert) Ball Hughes, Dorchester, Mass. Specimens of Statuary—Fisher Boy, and Oliver Twist. Excellent, both. The Committee consider the last named to be, in conception and feeling, one of the best specimens of modern statuary which they have ever seen. Gold Medal.” last update 8/3/2012 For noncommercial use, Copyright David E. Brown 2008-2012 |