Harriet Goodhue Hosmer: Poets

$175.00 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Sculpture gifts inspired by The Met collection. This elegant sculpture reproduces an original bronze cast in The Met collection. In 1852, the sculptor Harriet Goodhue Hosmer (American, 1830–1908) relocated from Watertown, Massachusetts, to Rome, Italy, where she became a prominent member of the Anglo-American expatriate community. In 1853, during her second winter in Rome, Hosmer developed a friendship with British poets Robert (1812–1889) and Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861). Hosmer suggested making a…