Costa Blanca
First English language reference to the Dama de Elche
By h.b. - Jul 15, 2008 - 8:12 AM
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Local historian, José Antonio Carrasco Pacheco, has discovered what he thinks is the first reference in an English language text to the Dama de Elche statue.
He has found a reference in a specialist New York magazine which dates from July 1898. The monthly illustrated magazine was called ‘The Century’ and José Antonio finally came across a copy in a New York library.
The statue had been taken to Paris for study in 1897 by the Spaniard Pedro Ibarra and the Frenchman Pierre Paris, who finally purchased it for the Louvre, and it was this move which the magazine had highlighted.
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