SculptureBritish19th-20th century

Valour and Cowardice

c. 1863

Artists

Alfred George StevensArtist

Classification

Sculpture

Technique

Lost-wax process

Medium

Bronze, with dark brown over reddish brown patina

Culture

British

Century

19th-20th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Paintings, Sculpture & Decorative Arts

Dimensions

64.4 x 34.4 x 35 cm (25 3/8 x 13 9/16 x 13 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Charles Ricketts and Charles Hazelwood Shannon, London, sold; [through Martin Birnbaum] to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, 1929, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943

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