Man and animals, then and now by W.B. Fagan. Location: Nobel House (formerly the headquarters of ICI), Northwestern corner of Millbank and Horseferry Road, London SW1. This panel is paired with a panel depicting a primitive man chewing on an animal hide to soften it while a woman in the background scrapes the fat off the skin. Click on photograph to enlarge it.
On the left women and children hide in a cave while the men attack an elephant or mammoth. On the right a scene of sheep herding and shearing.
Subjects of Door Panels
- Chemistry Lecture
- Jacquard Punch Card Loom
- Modern Farming
- Locomotive pulling a train
- Astronomers in an observatory
- Primitive transportation
- Building a house of reeds
- Neolithic agriculture
- Men pulling ploughs
- Creating clothing from animal hides
Photographs and caption by Robert Freidus al purpose as long as you (1) credit the photographer and (2) link your document to this URL in a web document or cite the Victorian Web in a print one.]
Created 1 June 2013
Last modified 28 January 2020