Education

Details

Dimensions: 34 x 13 x 15
Object Type: sculpture
Material: bronze and marble
Catalogue number: BrS5
Artist: Drury, Alfred (1856 - 1944)
Credit notes: Brangwyn gift, 1940

Standing female figure in long dress and bare head, a sleeping baby on her right shoulder supported by one arm, her left arm holding the outstretched hand of a little boy standing in front of her, partly enveloped in her billowing cloak.

This small bronze group is closely related to the colossal bronze allegory of Education which Drury made for Vauxhall Bridge in 1909, along with the groups of Art, Science, and Local Goverment. The figures for Education stand on the piers of the Westminster side of the bridge.