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Just to clarify or emphasise the point that the V&A suggested the statue came from Coalbrookdale Foundry painted white.

Terry, I went through the entire 1851 edition of the Illustrated London News (at the British Library newspaper department in Colindale) and the Official Description and Illustrated Catalogue of the Great Exhibition of 1851 4 Vols in the RSA). Both publications had black and white engravings of the C...

Thanks Terry,
I'll be looking through the Illustrated London news of 1851 with all its Grt. Exhib. suppliments, on Wednesday, for clues. I'll let you know if anything newsworthy emerges.

Thanks, Terry, That's cleared a couple of questions. Coalbrookdale Librarian is certain that the cast iron version sent to the 1851 exhibition would have been bronzed. I was asking because the Bethnal Green version, although painted black later on, was first coloured white according to the V&A. ...

There are currently two pictures on the site showing the Eagle Slayer beside Una and the Lion but in one photo he is white and the other bronze or 'bronzed'. Are these plaster casts and which came first?