AFTER JOHN BELL, ERIN, A TERRACOTTA SCULPTURE OF A YOUNG MAIDEN BY JOHN MARIOTT BLASHFIELD, 19TH CENTURY, modelled wearing a crown of oak leaves, her dress wrapped around her hips, leaning over a tree stump garlanded with foliage and a medallion, on an oval base, signed to the base J M MARIOTT MILLWALL LONDON, 165cm high

Note: This sculpture is listed in the Blashfield catalogue listed as No. 179, Erin, by John Bell, Height 5ft 4inches, Manufactured in Terracotta by J. M. Blashfield, Mill WAll, Poplar, and sold at No. 3 Praed Street, Edgware Road, London.

Provenance: From a private riverside residence.