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A Foul in Giants Race
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1908
adults
animals: actions
animals: mammals
attacking
elephant
Indian
man
nationality
people
riding
running
society
transport: land
sculpture bronze oak
A Foul in the Giants’ Race
object: 260 × 216 × 286 mm
Presented by the Trustees of the <a href="/search?gid=999999977" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Chantrey Bequest</a> 1908
<p><b>N02267</b> A FOUL IN THE GIANTS' RACE 1908
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<br/>Inscr. ‘C. L. Hartwell, Sc. 1908’ on base.
<br/>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).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1908.
<br/><i>Exh:</i>
R.A., 1908 (1822).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Eric Underwood, <i>A Short History of English Sculpture</i>, 1935, p.152.</p>
<p>The ‘Giants’ are Indian elephants who have collided in a race, and their riders were flourishing goads (now missing).</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, I</p>
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adults animals: actions animals: mammals attacking elephant Indian man nationality people riding running society transport: land