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Nydia, The Blind Flower Girl of Pompeii
Inscriptions
Inscribed on base: "Rome 1858"
Publications
Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Objects in the Museum: Sculpture and Painting (Art Institute of Chicago, 1898), 58, cat. 475, as Nydia. George Eggers, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings, and Drawings: Part I: Architecture and Sculpture, part 1 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1920), 77, cat. 913, as Nydia. Lorado Taft, The History of American Sculpture (Macmillan, 1924), 160–62, 167, fig. 22 (ill.), as Nydia. Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 177–179, cat. 79 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Randolph Rogers (American, 1825–1892)
- Date
- modeled 1855–56, carved 1858
- Medium
- Marble
- Dimensions
- 130.8 × 64.1 × 91.4 cm (51 1/2 × 25 1/4 × 36 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- sculpture
- Place
- Rome
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Bequest of Mrs. Uri Balcom
- Accession no.
- 1896.77
More by Randolph Rogers in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00001790
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