Unidentified photographer, Peace overcoming War.
263 mm x 218 mm.
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Peace overcoming War
Unidentified photographer
RA Collection: Art
Photograph of a finished plaster cast of 'Peace Overcoming War'. A marble group intended for Cartwright Hall, Bradford, which was probably exhibited as 'Humanity exterminating War', (cat.44) in the Derwent Wood memorial exhibition of 1927. One of a collection of 67 photographs of sculpture by Francis Derwent Wood R.A. which belonged to Kineton Parkes.
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263 mm x 218 mm
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