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This marble represents an idealised young girl tentatively approaching the waters edge, her hair and drapery billowing behind her. She is portrayed in contemporary dress, holding a starfish and standing on naturalistic seaweed-covered rocks.
This work is rare within Weekes's oeuvre, which is overwhelmingly composed of portrait busts. It was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1857, signed and dated: H. WEEKES, A.R.A. Sc. / 1857.
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