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David Slinging
David Slinging
David Slinging
David Slinging
David Slinging
David Slinging
David Slinging
David Slinging

Image credit: Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust

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The statuette represents the biblical figure David, a shepherd boy who killed the giant Goliath with a stone thrown from a sling. The statuette appears in the 1877 Coalbrookdale Company catalogue (No. 155). Described as 'David slinging', the price list shows the figure priced at £13 4s. Originally the statuette had a staff at its feet. A version was exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851.

Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron

Telford

Title

David Slinging

Date

c.1851

Medium

bronze

Measurements

H 67 x W 47 x D 50 cm

Accession number

CBD59.89.4

Acquisition method

gift from Glynwed Limited

Work type

Sculpture

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