Peace
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 a returning hero, with a female figure who carries a garland of laurels and steps lightly as if dancing. The pendant relief takes War as its subject.
Objects
Related works included War
1887 (Presumed)
The dates of creation are given as 1874-80 by Manchester Art Gallery
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
Citing this record
'Peace', 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_1302100573, accessed 11 Aug 2020]
