Bronze Medal awarded to Morris & Co for work shown at the Exposition Universelle Internationale, Paris, 1900

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Date: 1900
Dimensions: 6.5 diameter
Object Type: sculpture
Material: bronze
Catalogue number: S57
Artist: Chaplain, J. C. (1839 - 1909)
Credit notes: WMG purchase , 2000

The Chadwicks had a long association with Morris & Co, several generations of the family having worked for the firm. Frank Chadwick started his career with Morris & Co. c.1921 as a dyer, later becoming one of the Firm’s weavers. The present medallion was sold together with other items, which included: a letter of recommendation for Frank Chadwick from Morris & Co. (dated 19 September 1940) following the closure and voluntary liquidation of the firm, a newspaper cutting (publication unknown) on the Chadwicks’ links with Morris & Co. and a booklet on Indigo: Its Application in Dyeing and Printing by Dr M Liebert of Meister Lucius & Bruning Ltd. (Pubd. Furstenhagen & Brown, Bradford, n.d.)

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Dimensions: 49 x 36 x 23
Object Type: sculpture
Material: bronze
Catalogue number: BrS34
Credit notes: Brangwyn gift, 1940

A copy of Roman work in the Naples Museum.

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Date: c.1968
Dimensions: 37 x 25
Object Type: sculpture
Material: bronze
Catalogue number: S50
Artist: Wolfe, Alfred Adrian (1891 - 1975)
Credit notes: Presented by Mrs Anna Wolfe, 1982

The original plaster from which this bronze plaque was cast was modelled in 1918. It is based on a photograph of William Morris showing him in an identical pose, taken between 1892-3. This bronze plaque was one of six cast casts made in around 1968 when the artist Adrian Alfred Wolfe presented one to the University of Essex for display in one of the University’s residences named after William Morris.
After Wolfe’s death in 1975, Mrs. Wolfe presented the other casts to the William Morris Gallery, as well as the William Morris Society for display at Kelmscott House, Princeton University, the South Place Ethical Society, Conway House, Red Lion Square and the Museum of Labour History, London.

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Date: c.1900
Dimensions: 206 x 63.5 x 38
Object Type: sculpture
Material: bronze
Catalogue number: S35
Artist: Fehr, Henry Charles (1867 - 1940)

This bust of William Morris was given to Walthamstow Central Library in 1900 by Jonathan Passmore Edwards, a British journalist and philanthropist. It was unveiled by the Pre-Raphaelite artist William Holman Hunt. The bust was given to the William Morris Gallery in 1950.

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Date: c.1890?
Dimensions: 21.5 x 14 x 13
Object Type: sculpture
Material: bronze
Catalogue number: BrS29
Artist: Rodin, August Rene Francois (1840 - 1917)
Credit notes: Brangwyn gift, 1940

Rodin was fascinated by the formal possibilities of groups of interlocking figures, with their suggestions of intimacy, movement and complexity. Although small in size, the pair of embracing figures has – like so much of Rodin’s work – a monumental quality, so that one can easily imagine the same group sculpted on a colossal scale. The bronze is inscribed with a dedication to Rodin’s friend, the writer Arsene Alexandre.

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Date: 1876
Dimensions: 47.5 x 26 x 22.5
Object Type: sculpture
Material: bronze
Catalogue number: BrS16
Artist: Dalou, Aime Jules (1838 - 1902)
Credit notes: Brangwyn gift, 1940

Head and shoulders portrait of a young girl in square necked dress looking to left, her hair tied at the back falling behind right shoulder and over left shoulder.

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Date: 1908
Dimensions: 29 x 23 x 26
Object Type: sculpture
Material: bronze
Catalogue number: BrS11
Artist: Lanteri, Edouard (1848 - 1918)
Credit notes: Brangwyn gift, 1940

Edward (Edouard) Lanteri, (1848-1917), was born in France. He trained in Paris and came to London in 1872 to work as a studio assistant to Joseph Edgar Boehm. From 1880, he taught sculpture at the South Kensington Art Schools (later the Royal College of Art) where he was Professor of Modelling from 1900 to 1910. This bronze sculpture depicts Sir William Blake Richmond (1842-1921), a painter and sculptor and influential figure in the early Arts and Crafts Movement. In 1878, Richmond succeeded his friend and mentor John Ruskin as the Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford. Richmond was elected to the Royal Academy in 1895, where he served as Professor of Painting from 1895 to 1899 and from 1909 to 1911, he continued to exhibit with the Academy until 1916 and was elected Senior RA at the Academy in 1920.
The model for this bronze is also in the Gallery’s collection, se BrS27.

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Date: 1913
Dimensions: 31 x 25 x 13
Object Type: sculpture
Material: bronze
Catalogue number: BrS10
Artist: Toft, Albert (1862 - 1949)
Credit notes: Brangwyn gift, 1940

Man stripped to waist, wearing trousers and braces, holding long pole with ladle attached from which he pours iron.

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Dimensions: 29.6 x 23 x 16
Object Type: sculpture
Material: bronze
Catalogue number: BrS8
Artist: Dalou, Aime Jules (1838 - 1902)
Credit notes: Brangwyn gift, 1940

This is a small study for part of the much larger figure of Silenus in Dalou’s La Triomphe de Silene, a sculpture erected in the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris in 1898. Silenus is the character in ancient Greek mythology who symbolises drunkenness and debauchery; he is sometimes depicted riding a donkey or goat and accompanied by fauns, satyrs and maenads. In its vigorous modelling and lively realism, Dalou’s bronze comes very close to the qualities of Rodin’s work.

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Date: c. 1895
Dimensions: 47.5 x 31 x 33
Object Type: sculpture
Material: bronze
Catalogue number: BrS2
Artist: John, William Goscombe, Sir (1860 - 1952)
Credit notes: Brangwyn gift, 1940

Boy standing balancing himself on one foot, reaching forward with other foot to touch a knucklebone on ground in front of him; he must recover his position behind the line without putting his foot to the ground.

Goscombe John was born in Cardiff and began his career assisting his father, a stonemason, on William Burge’s restoration of Cardiff Castle. He then studied in London, at Lambeth and the R.A. Schools, before travelling in Europe and working for a time with Rodin in Paris. He made many public monuments as well as statuettes and designed the regalia for the future King Edward VIII’s investiture as Prince of Wales in 1911. Goscombe John made the bronze memorial to Canon Guy, William Morris’s tutor, in the Chapel of Forest School, Walthamstow (1897).

The plaster version of this statuette was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1895 and in the following year a larger bronze was purchased by the Tate Gallery.

Material: bronze

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