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Charity and Justice

William Hamo Thornycroft, 1888

Image courtesy Leeds Art Gallery

Charity and Justice is the full-size plaster model for one of the two bronze reliefs on the base of the memorial to General Gordon, a statue by Thornycroft erected in Trafalgar Square in 1888. The memorial, later moved to Victoria Embankment, is much admired, and the model now joins the Thornycroft archive given to Leeds City Art Gallery in 1982.

More information

Title of artwork, date

Charity and Justice, 1888

Date supported

2015

Medium and material

Patinated plaster

Dimensions

168 × 110.5 × 28cm

Grant

4000

Total cost

11250

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