File:Britannia War Memorials. Crewe, Troon and Morley. 1924.jpg
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English: BRITANNIA WAR MEMORIALS AT CREWE. TROON AND MORLEY. 1924-7. Three bronze statues 10 ft high and weighing 26 cwt, 20 ft high or more on their plinths. In CREWE Britannia carries the palm of the martyr’s victory in her right hand and a trident in her left. The TROON Britannia faces the sea and is holding out in her right hand the palm to those who are resting in and beyond the seas, with a winged Victory in her left hand. MORLEY has Britannia carrying a trident in her right hand and a kneeling male archaic Victory in her left. Concept, design and management by Walter Gilbert for H. H. Martyn of Cheltenham. This was the first major project in which Gilbert’s talented son Donald was involved, and reflects a transition from the winsome style of principal modeller Louis Weingartner which did not reflect the gravity of the slaughter. The work still displays, however, Weingartner’s remarkable ability to render detail. This photo shows the prototype clay figure which formed the basis for all three memorials. https://www.scribd.com/doc/17256374/Walter-Gilbert-Main-Inventory
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| Source | Contemporaneous photo commissioned by Walter Gilbert |
| Author | Phillip Medhurst |
| Other versions | http://pdfcast.org/pdf/works-by-walter-gilbert-and-their-location-by-phillip-medhurst |
Although the Monuments are referred-to as “Britannia”, the figure is a virtual reconstruction of the no longer extant monumental statue of “Athene Parthenos” by Pheidias based on a small bronze armless figurine in the British Museum, with patriotic symbols replacing cultic ones. This contemporaneous photo of the clay figure was commissioned by Walter Gilbert. File created from a print in the possession of Phillip Medhurst. http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib4_1217252088 archive copy at the Wayback Machine
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