A Painted Plaster Sculpture of an Elephant & Handler; Frederick Thomas Daws (1878-1956) sub-Art & Sculpture The League was a middle-class

The League was a middle-class nationwide organisation that held many well-attended rallies on the premise that a crusade was needed to convince parliament to repeal the corn laws

on 22 May 1870

surrounded by the names of revolutionaries fallen during the fighting in 1830

Although the picture is well executed and mysterious the museum quality frame takes centre stage here for being so outrageously proportioned

(Bristol Street)

A Painted Plaster Sculpture of an Elephant & Handler; Frederick Thomas Daws (1878-1956) sub-Art & Sculpture The League was a middle-classOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Early 20thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1930 35Height: 15Width: 5. 5Depth: 16. 5 (all at extremities)The beautifully modelled painted plaster model of a large adult African Elephant with his handler atop, stood on a rectangular base; sculpted by Frederick Thomas Daws (1878 1956), the whole apparently being un signed, in a all over ochre wash and surviving from 1930s England. Remaining in sound overall condition the piece has some