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Wall tablets and memorials by British sculptors
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Wall Tablets and Memorials
BRONZE INSCRIPTION TABLET, PART OF A MEMORIAL TO PRESIDENT LINCOLN AND
GEN. CHAPMAN ARMSTRONG, AT HAMPTON, VIRGINIA. BY A. BERTRAM PEGRAM
people which is stirred to
its depths. Never has
there been so great a need
that sculpture should be
true to its noblest ideals
and able to rise to the
summit of its power. For
upon it will be laid the
duty of conveying by
means of memorials, public
and private, the message
of to-day to the men who
are to live in centuries to
come; to it will fall the
task of symbolising and
expressing the courage of
the British race in the
greatest crisis it has known
and of recording how we
faced and fought the horrors of a struggle for
existence. Everything by which our sculptors
commemorate the men who are dying for us now,
every piece of work which is to serve as a tribute
to some one who has fallen on the field of honour,
or as a memorial of some incident in the war, will
form part of the great national monument which
we shall build up to testify to us in the future.
Therefore it behoves them to see that this monu-
ment shall in no respect be less than the occasion
demands. A. L. Baldry.
[Respecting the illustrations to the foregoing
article it is hardly necessary to point out that the
selection does not. comprise more than a very small
number of the works of this kind which have
emanated from British sculptors in recent years.
Numerous important examples do not figure here
because they have already been illustrated in these
pages. Thus a fine memorial by Mr. Derwent
Wood, A.R.A., entitled Love and Life, appeared in
our issue of May 1904 ; a bronze War memorial
designed by Mr. Alfred Drury, A.R.A., for the
cloisters of New College,
Oxford, was illustrated in
February 1906; various
further examples by Sir
George Frampton, R.A.,
were included in an
article on his recent mon-
umental sculpture in the
October number, 1911;
Mr. Reynolds - Stephens’s
Orchardson Memorial in
St. Paul’s Cathedral was
reproduced in the issue
for April 1914, and Mr.
Alfred Gilbert’s to Ran-
dolph Caldecott, also in
St. Paul’s, in November
1909. Besides these there
have appeared excellent
examples by Mr. Charles
J. Allen, Mr. Pickford
Marriott, Mr. Alan Wyon,
Mr. Caldwell Spruce, and
others. The Editor.]
IN MEMORY OF
A VERY GALLANT. GENTLEMAN
LAWRENCE EDWARD GRACE OATES
CAPTAIN IN THE INNISKILL1NG DRAGOONS
BORN MARCH VJ 1880 DIED MARCH 171912
ON THE RETURN JOURNEY FROM THE SOUTH
POLE.OF THE SCOTT ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION
®WHEN ALL WERE BESET BY HARDSHIP HE
BEING GRAVELY INJURED WENT OUT INTO
THE BLIZZARD TO DIE IN THE HOPE THAT BY SO
DOING HE MIGHT ENABLE HIS COMRADES TO
reach safety:®;®:©:this tablet is placed
HERE IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE BY
HIS BROTHER OFFICERS A D 1913
MEMORIAL TO CAPT. OATES : HAND ENGRAVED AND CAST BRASS, BLACK MARBLE
SURROUND. BY RICHARD R. GOULDEN
196
BRONZE INSCRIPTION TABLET, PART OF A MEMORIAL TO PRESIDENT LINCOLN AND
GEN. CHAPMAN ARMSTRONG, AT HAMPTON, VIRGINIA. BY A. BERTRAM PEGRAM
people which is stirred to
its depths. Never has
there been so great a need
that sculpture should be
true to its noblest ideals
and able to rise to the
summit of its power. For
upon it will be laid the
duty of conveying by
means of memorials, public
and private, the message
of to-day to the men who
are to live in centuries to
come; to it will fall the
task of symbolising and
expressing the courage of
the British race in the
greatest crisis it has known
and of recording how we
faced and fought the horrors of a struggle for
existence. Everything by which our sculptors
commemorate the men who are dying for us now,
every piece of work which is to serve as a tribute
to some one who has fallen on the field of honour,
or as a memorial of some incident in the war, will
form part of the great national monument which
we shall build up to testify to us in the future.
Therefore it behoves them to see that this monu-
ment shall in no respect be less than the occasion
demands. A. L. Baldry.
[Respecting the illustrations to the foregoing
article it is hardly necessary to point out that the
selection does not. comprise more than a very small
number of the works of this kind which have
emanated from British sculptors in recent years.
Numerous important examples do not figure here
because they have already been illustrated in these
pages. Thus a fine memorial by Mr. Derwent
Wood, A.R.A., entitled Love and Life, appeared in
our issue of May 1904 ; a bronze War memorial
designed by Mr. Alfred Drury, A.R.A., for the
cloisters of New College,
Oxford, was illustrated in
February 1906; various
further examples by Sir
George Frampton, R.A.,
were included in an
article on his recent mon-
umental sculpture in the
October number, 1911;
Mr. Reynolds - Stephens’s
Orchardson Memorial in
St. Paul’s Cathedral was
reproduced in the issue
for April 1914, and Mr.
Alfred Gilbert’s to Ran-
dolph Caldecott, also in
St. Paul’s, in November
1909. Besides these there
have appeared excellent
examples by Mr. Charles
J. Allen, Mr. Pickford
Marriott, Mr. Alan Wyon,
Mr. Caldwell Spruce, and
others. The Editor.]
IN MEMORY OF
A VERY GALLANT. GENTLEMAN
LAWRENCE EDWARD GRACE OATES
CAPTAIN IN THE INNISKILL1NG DRAGOONS
BORN MARCH VJ 1880 DIED MARCH 171912
ON THE RETURN JOURNEY FROM THE SOUTH
POLE.OF THE SCOTT ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION
®WHEN ALL WERE BESET BY HARDSHIP HE
BEING GRAVELY INJURED WENT OUT INTO
THE BLIZZARD TO DIE IN THE HOPE THAT BY SO
DOING HE MIGHT ENABLE HIS COMRADES TO
reach safety:®;®:©:this tablet is placed
HERE IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE BY
HIS BROTHER OFFICERS A D 1913
MEMORIAL TO CAPT. OATES : HAND ENGRAVED AND CAST BRASS, BLACK MARBLE
SURROUND. BY RICHARD R. GOULDEN
196