Not on display
- Artist
- Charles Leonard Hartwell 1873–1951
- Medium
- Bronze on oak base
- Dimensions
- Object: 260 × 216 × 286 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1908
- Reference
- N02267
Catalogue entry
N02267 A FOUL IN THE GIANTS' RACE 1908
Inscr. ‘C. L. Hartwell, Sc. 1908’ on base.
Bronze, 10 1/4×8 1/2×11 1/4 (26×22×28.5), on a wooden base, 4 3/4×8 1/4×11 3/4 (12×21×30).
Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1908.
Exh:
R.A., 1908 (1822).
Lit: Eric Underwood, A Short History of English Sculpture, 1935, p.152.
The ‘Giants’ are Indian elephants who have collided in a race, and their riders were flourishing goads (now missing).
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I
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