IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 12464 accession number: M.1B-1953 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 29 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Bronze 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.' title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sir Edmund Davis (brother-in-law to the testator); Mrs Constance Rea LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bequeathed by Mrs Constance Rea STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/12464 PEOPLE ------------------- Valour Cowardice SUBJECTS ------------------- Wellington Monument TECHNIQUES ---------- bronze, cast, patinated casting (process) TECHNIQUES ---------- patinating CATEGORIES ------ category: sculpture DATING ------ creation date: 1896 - 1929 creation date earliest: 1896 creation date latest: 1929 culture: 19th Century, Late-20th Century, Early CREATORS -------- maker: Stevens, Alfred George DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: in value: 25 CITATIONS -------- 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 ---