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dc.coverage.spatialSite: London, England, United Kingdomen_US
dc.coverage.temporalca. 1870-1902 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorWatts, George Fredericken_US
dc.date1870-1902en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-10-17T19:46:54Z
dc.date.available2013-10-17T19:46:54Z
dc.date.issued1870-1902en_US
dc.identifier238680en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 2611en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/146449
dc.descriptionContext view, side elevation, figure turned away; In the late 1860s Watts turned to sculpture. In 1870, a commission from Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, 3rd Marquess of Westminster (later 1st Duke), for a depiction of his ancestor Hugh Lupus as an equestrian hunter (completed 1884; Eaton Hall, Cheshire) inspired the equally monumental Physical Energy (cast, London, Kensington Gardens), which Watts worked on until the end of his life. The exaggerated musculature and dynamic pose of both horse and naked rider express in symbolic terms the energy Watts saw as characteristic of his age. There is another cast of the work forming the Rhodes Memorial in Cape Town, South Africa, and one in Harare, Zimbabwe. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 7/16/2012)en_US
dc.format.mediumbronzeen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectallegoryen_US
dc.subjectanimalen_US
dc.subjecthuman figureen_US
dc.subjecthorse and rideren_US
dc.subjecthorsesen_US
dc.subjectNineteenth centuryen_US
dc.subjectSymbolisten_US
dc.titlePhysical Energyen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode6A1-WGF-PE-A1en_US
vra.culturalContextBritishen_US
vra.techniquecasting (process)en_US
vra.worktypeequestrian statueen_US
dc.contributor.displayGeorge Frederick Watts (British sculptor, 1817-1904)en_US


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