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Accession Number | ART90084 |
Collection type | Art |
Measurement | Overall: 62.0 x 153.5 x 4.0 cm |
Object type | Sculpture |
Physical description | plaster, green patina |
Maker |
Butler-George, May |
Place made | Australia: Victoria, Melbourne |
Date made | 1923 |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: AWM Licensed copyright |
Bringing up the guns
Description
This is the original plaster cast of one of four bronze bas-relief panels commissioned from Butler-George for the base of the pedestal of the Second Division AIF Memorial at Mont St Quentin, France in 1918. It depicts members of a gun crew pushing and pulling an 18 pounder gun up a slight incline. A bronze version of the panel, cast in 1996, is installed in the Western Courtyard of the Australian War Memorial sculpture garden.