War
Created by Harry Bates
Object class: sculpture
Object type: relief
Material: metal - bronze, wood - mahogany
Technique: cast, modelled
Description: One of a pair of bronze reliefs framed in mahogany representing scenes from Homer's 'Illiad'. This work depicts the leader of the Trojan army, Hector, bidding farewell to his wife and son as he leaves to fight the Greek army. There is a plaster sketch for this work in Tate (cat. no. N01783). The pendant relief takes Peace as its subject.
Objects
Related works Peace
1887 (Presumed)
The dates of creation are given as 1874-80 by Manchester Art Gallery
Related works included Sketch for war
1887 (Presumed)
Sources
Manchester Art Gallery Collections
2009 (Circa)
http://www.manchestergalleries.org/the-collections/search-the-collection/display.php?EMUSESSID=28a27b5def2ee3e2767afd48dfd65124&irn=3891 (accessed 5 April 2011)
The New Sculpture
1983
pp. 54 and 255, f.n. 41 (includes illustration on p. 54)
Citing this record
'War', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/object.php?id=ann_1302100295, accessed 09 Dec 2021]
