Lion and Unicorn
Created by Phyllis Mary Bone
Date: 1927
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Object type: animal and heraldic
Material: stone
Technique: carved
Description: Guarding the entrance to the Memorial, on the right, a lion holds a shield bazoned with the union flag, and to the left the unicorn on whose shield is the National flag of Scotland (St Andrew's Cross)
Locations of Works
Setting for The Scottish National War Memorial Edinburgh Castle Edinburgh | View on map
1927
Citing this record
'Lion and Unicorn', 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_1222264672, accessed 02 Apr 2023]
