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Horsemen make odd couple

East Melbourne

  • Gordon Reserve. Spring Street

Topics

  • Adam Lindsay Gordon
  • Sculpture
  • William Stanford
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Acquisition number: 
1055
Catalogue number: 
emvf0781
File name: 
VF0781
File location: 
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Newspaper article giving the stories of the Stanford Fountain and the statue of poet and expert horseman, Adam Lindsay Gordon, both to be found in the Gordon Reserve. William Stanford was arrested for stealing horses and sent to Pentridge. There, realizing his talent, the prison chaplain arranged for him to have lessons from sculptor, Charles Summers. Stanford submitted a design for a public fountain which was accepted. He made it over several years while in Pentridge.

Item type: 
Newsclipping
Author: 
Jenny Brown
Date of publication or creation: 
2013-03-08
Publisher: 
The Age
Publication place: 
Melbourne
Year acquired: 
2013
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