IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 12462 accession number: M.1A-1953 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Bronze cast of one of the sketch models for the Wellington Monument in St Paul's Cathedral, London. Truth, with one foot pressed against the breast of Falsehood, is pulling out his endless tongue. His mask has been pushed up to reveal a brute's face, and his body ends in a coiling fishy tail. Black patina. On the side of the plinth is inscribed 'Alfred Stevens.No.1.' title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sir Edmund Davis (brother-in-law to the testator); Mrs Constance Rea LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bequeathed by Mrs Constance Rea STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/12462 PEOPLE ------------------- Truth Falsehood SUBJECTS ------------------- Wellington Monument TECHNIQUES ---------- bronze, cast, and patinated black casting (process) TECHNIQUES ---------- patinating CATEGORIES ------ category: sculpture DATING ------ creation date: 1877 - 1914 creation date earliest: 1877 creation date latest: 1914 culture: 19th Century, Late-20th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Stevens, Alfred George DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: in value: 23.0 CITATIONS -------- British Sculpture 1850-1914 Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 1540 to the present day Nineteenth Century European Paintings Drawing and Sculpture, 20th June 1989 British Sculpture 1470 to 2000, A Concise Catalogue of the Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum A Private Passion. 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University ---