Blighty
Created by Charles Leonard Hartwell
Date: 1917
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Material: metal - bronze
Notes: 'Blighty' was exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, London in 1916 (no.1913). The Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle has a cast with a Laing Art Gallery plaque dated 1918, but this may have been an assumption only. The statuette was purchased from the artist in 1934.
This record includes information submitted by Sarah Ricahrdson from Tyne and Wear Museums.
Exhibitions and other Events
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Ninety-First, 1917
1917
Citing this record
'Blighty', 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_1211895563, accessed 29 Sep 2023]
