Contest between Corineus and Goëmagot - An early British Legend
Created by James Milo Ap Griffith
Date: 1870
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Object type: figure group
Material: processed and vegetal - plaster
Description: The sculpture is of two figures wrestling. The older bearded man is throwing the younger beardless man violently over his bended knee whilst clutching his neck. 'An ambitious exhibition of anatomical knowledge.'
Inscriptions
Corineus and Goemagot
Location: Front side of the base
Technique: carved
Exhibitions and other Events
Exhibited at Fine Art and Industrial Exhibition (Cardiff), 1870
16 August 1870 - 1 October 1870
Exhibited at Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Cymru National Museum of Wales Exhibition of Works by Certain Modern Artists of Welsh Birth or Extraction, 1913
5 December 1913 - 28 February 1914
lent by the National Museum of Wales
Citing this record
'Contest between Corineus and Goëmagot - An early British Legend', 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=msib1_1202236151, accessed 26 Mar 2023]
