Butter sculpture of "The Dreaming Iolanthe" from Henrik Hertz's play King René's Daughter, by Caroline Shawk Brooks, 1876
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Butter sculptures are three-dimensional works of art created with butter, a dairy product made from the fat and protein components of churned cream. The works often depict animals, people, buildings a
Henrik Hertz
…Hertz passed through Germany and Switzerland into Italy in 1833; he spent the winter there, and returned the following autumn through France to Denmark. Butter sculpture of "The Dreaming Iolanthe" from Henrik Hertz's play King René's Daughter, by Caroline Shawk Brooks, 1876 In 1836 his comedy Sparekassen (The Savings…
Caroline Shawk Brooks with a butter sculpture basrelief of Columbus for the 1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition.
Postcard of John K. Daniels’s butter sculpture of a boy, cow, and calf. Iowa State Fair, 1911.
Linda Christensen sculpting butter at the 2010 Minnesota State Fair.