15929993440001312637261000Standard Recordobject-12464170292702608217029081590001702926911040fitz-onlineadlib-object-12464https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/124649abf6bd3-a563-38cc-bf59-ae7902a369ca6personreferenceagent-153020adlib-agent-153020e67bdf6a-fc91-38fb-85f0-847f7e77658aValourpersonreferenceagent-153019adlib-agent-15301915610f99-47d5-3b55-9a4a-a8cb7c7c147eCowardicereferenceterm-98228adlib-term-982283d747999-296f-3944-9a84-2936c3ae9f5csculptureDepthcm24.3Heightcm64.2Widthcm35.7Sculpturereferenceterm-102639adlib-term-1026392c240716-c1bb-36c4-9594-b0a98f1208c2allegoryApplied ArtsBronze cast of one of the sketch models for the Wellington Monument in St Paul's Cathedral, London. Valour, enthroned, is quietly spurning the coward who lies prostrate beneath his shield, which serves as a foot-stool for her. She holds a club in her right hand, a shield on the other arm, the lion's skin covers her head, and the claws are knotted on her breast. Black patina. On the side of the plinth is inscribed 'Alfred Stevens.No.1.'M.1B-19531accession numberM.1B-195312464priref12464external IDCAM_CCF_M_1B_1953urihttps://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/12464https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/12464on the side of the plinthinscribedAlfred Stevens.No.1.referenceagent-149638adlib-agent-1496387376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8The Fitzwilliam MuseumBequeathed by Mrs Constance Reareferenceagent-152221adlib-agent-152221e9d7d057-e4ac-31f7-9397-7fcf7eb39531Rea, Constance195319531953bequeathedEntry date: 1953-02-2618961896CE1896circa18961929The models by Stevens date from c. 1863. The earliest documented example of Truth and Falsehood and its pair Valour and Cowardice were cast in 1896 by J.W.Singer and Sons in Frome, Somerset (now Victoria and Albert Museum, London, nos 264-1896 and 265-1896). The date when the present bronze and its pendant were cast is unknown, but they were likely produced at some point after 1877 (when Davis bought the plaster models) and before 1914 (when he gave the plaster models to Manchester City Art Gallery).11929CE19291929sculptorreferenceagent-130331adlib-agent-130331f95f28ac-13ef-3848-8ccc-ed140fd91227Stevens, Alfred GeorgeThis bronze and its pendant, 'Truth and Valour' (M.1A-1953), were cast from a pair of plaster models purchased by the financier and art patron Edmund Davis in 1877 at the posthumous sale of Stevens' studio contents. Davis had them cast (date unknown) and later gave them to his sister-in-law, Mrs Constance Rea. The lifetime plaster models from which Davis had these bronzes cast are most likely those which he gave to Manchester City Art Gallery in 1914 (1914.60 - 'Valour and Cowardice' and 1914.61 - 'Truth and Falsehood').referenceterm-120900adlib-term-120900388bb85e-e90a-3417-a007-99f254a808c019th Century, Late-20th Century, Early#referenceterm-40365adlib-term-40365d79c75c2-da7b-3187-918e-f7a374e04005bronzeHeightin25.0referenceterm-107454adlib-term-1074546ca0f2ab-c1f8-329d-8a45-8f1322f53a20figurehistory noteSir Edmund Davis (brother-in-law to the testator); Mrs Constance Rea1referenceobject-12462adlib-object-1246274bcf3cd-a16e-3094-920c-d372b55c84e11reference1term-107454adlib-term-1074546ca0f2ab-c1f8-329d-8a45-8f1322f53a20figurefigurereferenceagent-149638adlib-agent-1496387376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8The Fitzwilliam Museumreference numberliteralnameSculpture UKSculpture UKreferencepublication-1089adlib-publication-1089c854b59c-8d01-33c9-8dbc-de131d7dbbceBritish Sculpture 1850-1914Publ. pp. 161-2, no. 572pp. 161-2referencepublication-1072adlib-publication-1072cc21b4e3-d3f9-337a-859e-ce6392a2cc4fCatalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 1540 to the present dayCf. pp. 64-5, lot 34 (with Valour and Cowardice). (Estimated for both £10-15,000)pp. 64-5referencepublication-2171adlib-publication-217107e46ce1-10a2-3868-aea6-739f0735724bNineteenth Century European Paintings Drawing and Sculpture, 20th June 1989Cf. A full-size plaster model of Valour and Cowardice of 1866, pp. 377-8, no. 581. See also p. 378, no. 583, the original clay model for Valour and Cowardice, of c. 1857.377-8referencepublication-3759adlib-publication-375973edca64-3289-371a-bf69-0300633e25edBritish Sculpture 1470 to 2000, A Concise Catalogue of the Collection at the Victoria and Albert MuseumCf. pp. 427-30, no. 192, illustrated p. 428, fig. 192. Bewer notes that there are fifteen known pairs of Truth and Falsehood and Valour and Cowardice, with three documented signed and numbered sets (nos 1, 4 and 5 - no. 1 being the set in the Fitzwilliam Museum).427-30referencepublication-4674adlib-publication-4674ea485ea3-0787-38b1-9711-ab9123d3b87fA Private Passion. 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard Universityreferenceterm-107698adlib-term-107698530beb2a-08fe-33bb-b710-3c50b277dfa7Wellington Monumentreferenceterm-107454adlib-term-1074546ca0f2ab-c1f8-329d-8a45-8f1322f53a20figurefigurebronze, cast, patinatedby the lost-wax process in moulds taken from plaster casts made from Stevens' clay sketches.referenceterm-26699adlib-term-26699a385eebb-7834-3204-a17f-d9c3cd15d9b8casting (process)blackreferenceterm-120073adlib-term-1200738f03d319-c397-37c8-a0e8-e23ef3cfdbbcpatinatingValour and Cowardiceobject
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