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Braintree
Essex East of England High Street |
Young Boy with Beavers and Sea Lions |
John Hodge
A.B. Burton (Thames Ditton) 1937 |
Statue of a young boy holding a fish in each uplifted hand. A beaver tries to clamber up the boy's leg and looks to the fish. The boy stands on a large nautilus shell. According to the sculptor, the boy symbolises the joy of youth - just a happy boy playing in the water and catching the fish in his hands. The sculpture is the center piece of a circular fountain basin, with four animals spouting water (but not when we were in Braintree). The animals, including the one at the boy's feet, are according to the Chelmsford Chronicle sea lions and according to Historic England seals. However, two of them are certainley beavers
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The fountain was commissioned in 1937 by sir W.J. Courtauld in memory of King George V.
the gift of WILLIAM JULIEN COURTAULD ESQ. JP of pennypot halstead (coat of arms) to the town of braintree in memory of king george v |
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