Detail: top of the right hand relief - cherub on the telephone.
Location: Firth College, entrance facing the junction of Leopold Street and West Street, Sheffield city centre.
Description: Two triangular reliefs either side of a curved door. The right hand relief shows two cherubs talking to each other on an early version of a telephone on either side of the naked figure of Science. The figure of Art, holding a chisel and mallet, has a cherub at her feet holding a palette and brushes and another at her left shoulder holding a diminutive mallet and chisel. Between the latter and Art is a head in relief of an unidentified bearded man.
Commission: Presumably Sheffield City Council’s Education Department. The architects were by E.R Robson of London and T.J Flockton of Sheffield.
Comment: The telephone is a reference to the Telephone Exchange Building (now Steel City House) opposite.
About the artist: F. Onslow Ford (1852-1901) was also the sculptor for the monument to Sir Rowland Hill, now in King Edward Street, London, outside the main General Post office.
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Detail: top of the right hand relief - cherub on the telephone. <p> Location: Firth College, entrance facing the junction of Leopold Street and West Street, Sheffield city centre. <p> Description: Two triangular reliefs either side of a curved door. The right hand relief shows two cherubs talking to each other on an early version of a telephone on either side of the naked figure of Science. The figure of Art, holding a chisel and mallet, has a cherub at her feet holding a palette and brushes and another at her left shoulder holding a diminutive mallet and chisel. Between the latter and Art is a head in relief of an unidentified bearded man. <p> Commission: Presumably Sheffield City Council’s Education Department. The architects were by E.R Robson of London and T.J Flockton of Sheffield. <p> Comment: The telephone is a reference to the Telephone Exchange Building (now Steel City House) opposite. <p> About the artist: F. Onslow Ford (1852-1901) was also the sculptor for the monument to <a href="http://shimmer.shu.ac.uk/luna/servlet/s/rhr36u">Sir Rowland Hill</a>, now in King Edward Street, London, outside the main General Post office.
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