Edward Onslow-Ford English, 1852-1901
Peace
Signed E. Onslow Ford London 1890
Conceived 1889 and cast circa 1890
Bronze, rich dark brown patination
Height: 17.7" (45 cm)
Further images
Part of his series of ideal nudes, Onslow Ford's full-size plaster of Peace was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1887, where it was considered by the critic Edmund Gosse...
Part of his series of ideal nudes, Onslow Ford's full-size plaster of Peace was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1887, where it was considered by the critic Edmund Gosse to be 'the most delightful contribution to the exhibition'. Three years later a life-size bronze was also shown; this work is now part of the Walker Art Gallery collection, Liverpool.
Peace here is depicted as a youthful female figure, following its traditional iconography, holding the palm branch of victory in her right hand and a dove in her left, standing on a piece of armour - the symbol of subdued war. Ford's innovation does not relate to the subject's iconographic attributes, but rather to its composition. Peace is represented as a lively young girl and captured mid-movement, devoid of the stiffness that would have characterised ancient or neoclassical depictions of the same subject.
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Peace here is depicted as a youthful female figure, following its traditional iconography, holding the palm branch of victory in her right hand and a dove in her left, standing on a piece of armour - the symbol of subdued war. Ford's innovation does not relate to the subject's iconographic attributes, but rather to its composition. Peace is represented as a lively young girl and captured mid-movement, devoid of the stiffness that would have characterised ancient or neoclassical depictions of the same subject.
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