The Tunnellers' Friends
Designed by Hazel Ruthven Armour
Carved by Phyllis Mary Bone
Date: 1927
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Object type: panel
Material: stone
Technique: carved
Description: canaries and mice
Notes: These small creatures were taken underground by tunnellers to give warning, as they were quickly affected, if the air became unfit to breathe.
Locations of Works
Setting for The Scottish National War Memorial Edinburgh Castle Edinburgh | View on map
1927
Sources
The Scottish National War Memorial, A Record and Appreciation
1928 (Circa)
p. 42
Virtue and Vision Sculpture and Scotland
18 September 1991
p. 109
Citing this record
'The Tunnellers\' Friends', 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=msib6_1211454682, accessed 29 Mar 2023]
