- Artist
- Sir William Reynolds-Stephens 1862–1943
- Medium
- Bronze, wood and stone
- Dimensions
- Object: 2407 × 2330 × 978 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1911
- Reference
- N02788
Catalogue entry
N02788 A ROYAL GAME 1906–11
Inscr. ‘Elizabeth of England’ b.l. and ‘Philip 11 of Spain’ b.r. on pedestal.
Bronze group with various metals and inlays, 94 3/4×91 3/4×38 1/2 (240·5×233×98).
Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1911.
Exh: R.A., 1911 (1751), as ‘A Royal Game - an allegory of the contest between England and Spain for the rule of the seas.’
Repr: Royal Academy Pictures, 1911, p.54; Studio, CXXXII, 1946, p.78.
Queen Elizabeth I of England and Philip II of Spain playing chess with ships. A plaster version, with a simpler base, was exhibited at the R.A. in 1906 (1797) and is reproduced in Royal Academy Pictures, 1906, p.139, and Studio, XXXVIII, 1906, p.14.
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II
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