Unsung Heroines | Twentieth Century British Art by Margaret Wrightson: “St George - the original maquette for Cramlington War Memorial, Northumberland, circa 1922”

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Artist Margaret Wrightson: St George - the original maquette for Cramlington War Memorial, Northumberland, circa 1922

Artist Margaret Wrightson (1877-1976): St George - the original maquette for Cramlington War Memorial, Northumberland, circa 1922

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Margaret Wrightson (1877-1976):
St George - the original maquette for Cramlington War Memorial, Northumberland, circa 1922
Unframed (ref: 9587)
The original plaster maquette

8 in. (20.5 cm)

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Provenance: Private collection South Africa

Wrightson's Cramlington War Memorial, Northumberland, was unveiled by Lt. Col, Robert Scott on 17th September 1922 and dedicated by Dr. Wild, Bishop of Newcastle.

Wrightson exhibited at the Royal Academy and at the Society of Women Artists from 1906. Her public sculptures are a small figure of St. George on the war memorial at Cramlington, Northumberland (1922) and the statue of a boy commemorating Charles Lamb (1928) in the gardens of the Inner Temple in the City of London.