“Manufacture on the Victoria Memorial” by Sir Thomas Brock

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Manufacture

Sir Thomas Brock, K.C.B., R.A. 1847-1922

1911

Bronze

11 feet 6 inches high

The Victoria Memorial

Facing the Mall, London

Compare the plaster sketch model published in the 1911 Studio

[Detail from another angle]

“Manufacture, a brawny smith [is] standing hammer in hand beside the lion. This figure,” by the way, it is interesting to note, was modelled from Colorossi, the same model who sat to Brock for the group Hercules strangling Antæus, with which he won his gold medal as a Royal Academy student in 1869.” — Malcolm C. Salaman

First two photographs, formatting, and text by George P. Landow December 1999; photograph below right 2011” by Robert Freidus. [You may use this image without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the photographer and (2) link your document to this URL in a web document or cite it in a print one.]

Bibliography

Beattie, Susan. The New Sculpture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983.

Read, Benedict. Victorian Sculpture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982.

Salaman, Malcolm C. “Sir Thomas Brock's Queen Victoria Memorial.” The Studio 53 (June 1911) 29-40. Internet Archive digitized from a copy in the University of Toronto Library.

Last modified 21 January 2020