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Middle White Sow (Wharfedale Royal Lady)

Statuette Middle White Sow
1925 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

This gilt bronze statuette of a Middle White sow is part of a larger series of twenty Champion animals. It is the work of Herbert Haseltine whose sculptures used beautiful materials and patinas and were inspired by Egyptian sculptures.

The pig is Wharfedale Royal Lady who won the first and breed Champion prizes at the Royal Agricultural Society of England in 1921 and 1923 and the First and Champion prizes at the Yorkshire Show in 1923.

Object details

Category
Object type
TitleMiddle White Sow (Wharfedale Royal Lady) (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Gilt bronze
Brief description
Middle White Sow (Wharfedale Royal Lady), bronze, Herbert Haseltine (1877-1962), American, 1925
Physical description
Statuette, gilt bronze.
Dimensions
  • Width: 9.5cm (Note: including integral base )
  • Depth: 5cm (Note: including integral base )
  • Height: 13cm (Note: including integral base )
Dimensions were taken by SCP on 19.11.14 for Bronze Zoo: A Sculptural Menagerie
Credit line
Given by Miss Davey in memory of her brother, George Henry Davey
Object history
Given by Miss Davey in memory of her brother, George Henry Davey. Miss Davey's gift, A.193 to A.210-196 consists of eighteen objects representing nineteen animals as A.197-1969 represents two. The whole series originally consisted of 20 animals. George Henry Davey, who purchased the Third set of British Champion animals and in whose memory it was given to the Museum, was the Paris representative of Knoedler and Co, the art-dealers, for many years. Herbert Haseltine's idea of the series originated in his modelling of King George V's champion Shire stallion Field Marshall V (exhibited 1921). In June 1925 twenty of the British Champion Animals were shown in Paris at the Galerie Georges Petit. In July and August the same exhibition was held at Knoedler's in London; the titles corresponds with the Museum's set.
Historical context
This middle white sow is Wharfedale Royal Lady, bred by and the propery of Leopold C Paget, Esq., of Middlethorpe Hall in York. This sow was the first and breed Champion at the Show of the Royal Agricultural Society of England in 1921 and 1923 and won the first and Champion prizes at the Yorkshire show in 1923.
Subject depicted
Summary
This gilt bronze statuette of a Middle White sow is part of a larger series of twenty Champion animals. It is the work of Herbert Haseltine whose sculptures used beautiful materials and patinas and were inspired by Egyptian sculptures.

The pig is Wharfedale Royal Lady who won the first and breed Champion prizes at the Royal Agricultural Society of England in 1921 and 1923 and the First and Champion prizes at the Yorkshire Show in 1923.
Collection
Accession number
A.209-1969

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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