Bust of Elizabeth Gurney Fry

c. 1843

Maker

Mary Rivers (dates unknown)

Measurements

4-7/8 in x 2-3/4 in x 1-1/2 in

Materials

Plaster

Credit Line

Historic Odessa Foundation, The David Wilson Mansion, Inc.

Accession Number

1971.1013

Inscription

"Mary Rivers Sc / LONDON / Published As the / Act Directs / May 18 1843” is cast into the back of the bust.  “Elizabeth Fry / an / English Quaker” is written in pencil on the bottom.

Condition Notes

The base of the bust has broken and has been repaired.

Provenance

Ex coll. Mrs. E. Tatnall (Mary Corbit) Warner

Comments

Copied from an alabaster bust made by Mary Rivers in 1843

The small molded plaster bust is of Elizabeth Gurney Fry (1780-1845), a well-known Quaker of Norwich, England, whose efforts in prison reform came to the attention of Queen Victoria.  The bust was taken from one made by Mary Rivers in 1843.