Sir William Hamo Thornycroft English, 1850-1925
Teucer
Signed HAMO THORNYCROFT and dated 1881
Inscribed with the number 88
Conceived in 1881 and cast in 1888.
Bronze with a rich dark brown patina and lighter brown highlights
Height: 31" (79 cm)
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The life-size plaster for Teucer was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1881. The bronze was exhibited a year later and subsequently purchased for the Tate by the Trustees of...
The life-size plaster for Teucer was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1881. The bronze was exhibited a year later and subsequently purchased for the Tate by the Trustees of the Chancery Bequest. In light of the sculpture’s success, Thornycroft cast the work in three further sizes: 79cm, 55cm and 33cm.
In 1880 Thornycroft had the idea for a number of small sculptures ‘illustrative of English Games’, beginning with his model of an athlete Putting the Stone. The series was never completed, but in the present work we see the sculptor combining sporting imagery with the classical mythology of ancient Greece.
According to Homer’s epic poem The Iliad, which recounts the final year of the Trojan War, Teucer was a formidable Greek archer who entered Troy in the Trojan Horse. Once inside Troy, Teucer tried in vain to kill the Trojan prince Hector, who was protected by the god Apollo.
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In 1880 Thornycroft had the idea for a number of small sculptures ‘illustrative of English Games’, beginning with his model of an athlete Putting the Stone. The series was never completed, but in the present work we see the sculptor combining sporting imagery with the classical mythology of ancient Greece.
According to Homer’s epic poem The Iliad, which recounts the final year of the Trojan War, Teucer was a formidable Greek archer who entered Troy in the Trojan Horse. Once inside Troy, Teucer tried in vain to kill the Trojan prince Hector, who was protected by the god Apollo.
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