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Edward Onslow Ford, The SingerAlbert Toft, Spirit of Conemplation

Edward Onslow Ford
(1852-1901)
The Singer, Linos, and Other Works

The Singer | Peace | Other Female Nudes | Linos

Images on this page all link to bigger versions of varying sizes. As always, they’re the best pictures I could get, but in many cases I wish I could find better reproductions.

The Singer
The Singer by Edward Onslow Ford - right sideThe Singer by Edward Onslow Ford - right side - colourThe Singer by Edward Onslow Ford - frontThe Singer by Edward Onslow Ford - left
Four views of The Singer, 1889 (Tate Britain Gallery, London).

Small Image and Description from official Tate site

An Egyptian slave girl, naked but for a headdress, stands beside a tall harp...an image that, together wiith Albert Toft’s Spirit of Contemplation, inspired my adult story “The Singer”.
Do not follow this link if you find erotic content offensive.

The Singer is one of several statuettes by Ford featuring allegorical themes, which some critics saw as nothing but an excuse for lots of adolescent female nudity. Judge for yourself....

Peace
Peace by Edward Onslow FordPeace by Edward Onslow Ford (dove missing)Peace by Edward Onslow Ford - BronzePeace by Edward Onslow Ford - Bronze
Peace (holding a branch and releasing a dove):
(1) Old engraving; | (2) Bronze statuette, dove missing | (3) Bronze in Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool | (4) Another view with neighbouring works

Other Female Nudes
Folly by Edward Onslow FordDance by Edward Onslow FordMusic by Edward Onslow Ford
(1) Folly (standing at the edge of a cliff and beckoning others to follow);
(2) Dance and (3) Music (both wearing birds on their heads for some unknown reason),
(2) and (3) taken from engravings.

Linos
Linos by Edward Onslow Ford - back right viewLinos by Edward Onslow Ford - front view with fig leafLinos by Edward Onslow Ford - front left view
Three views of Linos (or Linus...no relation to the Peanuts character!) - two side views of bronze reproductions, and a front view of the original marble(?) version with fig leaf added, taken from an engraving.

Linos seems to have been a Greek god of melancholy. His expression, gesture and lowered torch seem intended to convey his feeling of dismay, although with a body like that you can’t help wondering what he’s got to be so miserable about.

The artist’s signature can be seen on the base in the big version of the left-hand image. The inscription on the front of the base in the middle image reads [LINOS] in Greek lettering.

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