IDENTIFIERS
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id:	12462
accession number:	M.1A-1953

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 18 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Bronze cast of one of the sketch models for the Wellington Monument in St Paul's Cathedral, London. Truth, with one foot pressed against the breast of Falsehood, is pulling out his endless tongue. His mask has been pushed up to reveal a brute's face, and his body ends in a coiling fishy tail. Black patina. On the side of the plinth is inscribed 'Alfred Stevens.No.1.'
title:	figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Sir Edmund Davis (brother-in-law to the testator); Mrs Constance Rea


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Bequeathed by Mrs Constance Rea

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/12462

PEOPLE
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Truth
Falsehood

SUBJECTS
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Wellington Monument



TECHNIQUES
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bronze, cast, and patinated black
casting (process)
TECHNIQUES
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patinating

CATEGORIES
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category: sculpture

DATING
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creation date:	1877 - 1914
creation date earliest:	1877
creation date latest:	1914
culture:	19th Century, Late-20th Century, Early

CREATORS
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maker: Stevens, Alfred George

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: in
value: 23.0



CITATIONS
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British Sculpture 1850-1914
Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 1540 to the present day
Nineteenth Century European Paintings Drawing and Sculpture, 20th June 1989
British Sculpture 1470 to 2000, A Concise Catalogue of the Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum
A Private Passion. 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University
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