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Presentation: Framed
SN: 515
Original wood-block, 3½ in. (9 cm.) square
These two wood-blocks date from the mid-1920s when Woodford was studying at the British School at Rome. They are clearly infuenced by the work of his brother-in-law Robert Austin (compare Austin’s etching 1923, CD 30). Both were recipients of the 1922 Scholarship at the British School at Rome, Woodford in Sculpture, Austin in Engraving. (For a portrait of Woodford by Austin from this period see cat. 73).
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Presentation: Framed
SN: 578
Original Plaster maquettes
Height 10⅝ in. (27 cm.), base (irregular) 5⅞ × 3½ in. (15 × 9 cm.)
Provenance: acquired directly from the artist’s son
Literature: James Woodford, Heraldic Sculpture and the Work of James Woodford, Ipswich 1972, p. 61

Woodford specialised in heraldic sculpture, most notable among which was his series of ten animals for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, known as ‘The Queen’s Beasts’.

The final figures for The Lion and the Unicorn for Wandsworth County Court are over 6 ft high, and are placed on brick piers either side of the main entrance. They were cast in aluminium and finished in stove enamel to protect against weathering.

Of this commission Woodford wrote:‘The composition is an upright one to be in keeping with the perpendicular lines of the stone panelling and the windows above, and forms the main feature of the elevation. The animals stand free from the building so that the side view presents a good silhouette. The modelled surface is textured to contrast with the plain surface of the building’ (James Woodford, Heraldic Sculpture and the Work of James woodford, Ipswich, 1972, p. 61).

These are similar to his Lion and the Unicorn at Minturno British Cemetery, Imperial War Graves Commission, Italy.
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Presentation: Framed
SN: 579
Original Plaster maquettes
Height 10⅝ in. (27 cm.), base (irregular) 5⅞ × 3½ in. (15 × 9 cm.)
Provenance: acquired directly from the artist’s son
Literature: James Woodford, Heraldic Sculpture and the Work of James Woodford, Ipswich 1972, p. 61

Woodford specialised in heraldic sculpture, most notable among which was his series of ten animals for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, known as ‘The Queen’s Beasts’.

The final figures for The Lion and the Unicorn for Wandsworth County Court are over 6 ft high, and are placed on brick piers either side of the main entrance. They were cast in aluminium and finished in stove enamel to protect against weathering.

Of this commission Woodford wrote:‘The composition is an upright one to be in keeping with the perpendicular lines of the stone panelling and the windows above, and forms the main feature of the elevation. The animals stand free from the building so that the side view presents a good silhouette. The modelled surface is textured to contrast with the plain surface of the building’ (James Woodford, Heraldic Sculpture and the Work of James woodford, Ipswich, 1972, p. 61).

These are similar to his Lion and the Unicorn at Minturno British Cemetery, Imperial War Graves Commission, Italy.
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Presentation: Unmounted
SN: 993
Signed, titled and dated in pencil
Watercolour over chalk
8 x 10 1/2 in. (20 x 27 cm. sight size)
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Presentation: Unmounted
SN: 2898
The original patinated plaster, some chips and hair line cracks

This group possibly relates to the 1946 Royal Academy exhibit of the same title (exhibit no. 1232)

Woodford was a prolific producer of figurative sculpture. Among his notable works were bronze doors at the RIBA; main doors at Norwich City Hall; stone figures and panels, Huddersfield Library and Art Gallery; statue of Robin Hood in Nottingham; sculpture for Imperial War Graves Commission British cemeteries in Italy; new design of Royal Coat of Arms, 1962; and many coats of arms for government buildings in Britain and abroad. Woodford's output is widely illustrated: in the volume RBS: Modern British Sculpture, published 1939; in Arthur T Broadbent's Sculpture Today in Great Britain 1940-1943, published 1949; and he was included in Sculpture In Britain Between The Wars, Fine Art Society, 1986.
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Presentation: Framed
SN: 1784
Original wood-block, 1 x 1 in. (3 x 2.5 cm.) In a beech shadow box frame with blue interior colour field

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£260

Presentation: Mounted
SN: 2064
Signed Wash
9 7/8 x 10 5/8 in. (25 x 27 cm.)
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Presentation: Unmounted
SN: 2889
Original plaster
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Presentation: Unmounted
SN: 2890
Original plaster
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Presentation: Unmounted
SN: 2892
Original plaster, patinated in black
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Presentation: Framed
SN: 3094
Woodblock framed in shadow box painted inside with a pastel green colour field, with a posthumous print on verso side
Block: 3 3/4 x 3 1/2 in. (9.5 x 9 cm.)
Print: 7 5/8 x 7 1/2 in. (19.5 x 19 cm.)
HahnemÃ¼hle Natural Line VergÃ© paper (100g/mÂ²)
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Presentation: Framed
SN: 3095
Woodblock cleaned and restored
Woodblock 3 3/4 x 2 3/16 in. (9.5 x 5.5 cm.)

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Presentation: Unframed
SN: 3096
Woodblock cleaned and restored
Woodblock 3 1/4 x 1 1/2 in. (8.1 x 3.7 cm.)
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Presentation: Unframed
SN: 3097
Original woodblock cleaned, restored and framed
Woodblock 5 x 4 in. (12,6 x 10 cm.)
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Presentation: Unframed
SN: 3098
Original woodblock cleaned, restored and framed
Woodblock: 5 x 3 in. (12,7 x 7,8 cm.)
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Presentation: Unmounted
SN: 3099
Wood engraving on paper
Block: 3 3/4 x 3 1/2 in. (9.5 x 9 cm.)
Print: 7 5/8 x 7 1/2 in. (19.5 x 19 cm.)
A limited edition has been printed on HahnemÃ¼hle Ingres (100 g/mÂ²)
This woodblock dates from the mid-1920s when Woodford was studying at the British School at Rome.
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Presentation: Unmounted
SN: 3100
Wood engraving on paper
Block: 1 1/8 x 1 in. (2.8 x 2.6 cm.)
Print: 5 1/8 x 5 1/8 in. (13 x 13 cm.)
A limited edition has been printed posthumously on
Hahnehle Natural Line verge© paper (250 g/m)
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Presentation: Mounted
SN: 3532
Signed Watercolour.
10 x 12 3/8 in. (25.5 x 31.5 cm.)

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Presentation: Mounted
SN: 3655
Signed
Wash
22 x 33 cm
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Presentation: Passe-partout
SN: 4548
Signed and titled
Watercolour and chalk
19 x 25.5 cm (framed:28 x 35 cm)
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Presentation: Unframed
SN: 4226
Bronze on a circular wooden base,
25 cm high

Provenance: the artist's brother in law Robert Austin, thence by descent.

Woodford was a sculptor in a range of materials, born in Nottingham, where he studied at the School of Art. After service with 2ith Sherwood Foresters on the continent in World War I, where he was mentioned in dispatches, Woodford attended Royal College of Art. During World War II Woodford was camouflage officer to the Air Ministry. He was elected RA in 2945 and was a fellow of RBS. Woodford was a prolific producer of figurative sculpture. Among his notable works were bronze doors at the RIBA; main doors at Norwich City Hall; stone figures and panels, Huddersfield Library and Art Gallery; statue of Robin Hood in Nottingham; sculpture for Imperial War Graves Commission British cemeteries in Italy; new design of Royal Coat of Arms, 1962; and many coats of arms for government buildings in Britain and abroad. Woodford's output is widely illustrated: in the volume RBS: Modern British Sculpture, published 1939; in Arthur T Broadbent's Sculpture Today in Great Britain 1940-1943, published 1949; and he was included in Sculpture In Britain Between The Wars, Fine Art Society, 1986. Lived in Twickenham, Middlesex.
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Presentation: Framed
SN: 564
Signed; pencil, 9 × 6½ in. (22.6 × 16.7 cm.)
Provenance: acquired directly from the artist’s son

Woodford was one of the most distinguished sculptors of his generation, and his anatomical studies, relatively few of which appear to have survived, show a faultless understanding of anatomy, as would be expected of a student who was awarded the 1922 Rome Scholarship in Sculpture (see also cats. 127 and 134).

In a gilded oak square section frame with gilded oak slip, glazed
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Presentation: Mounted
SN: 3890
Signed and dated
Sanguine and watercolour
28 x 33,5 cm
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Presentation: Unmounted
SN: 2919
Patinated plaster, unique maquet
In a veneered circular frame
8 in. (20 cm.) (diam).

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James Woodford 1893–1976

Sculptor in range of materials, born in Nottingham, where he studied at the School of Art. After service with 2ith Sherwood Foresters on the continent in World War I, where he was mentioned in dispatches, Woodford attended Royal College of Art. During World War II Woodford was camouflage officer to the Air Ministry. He was elected RA in 2945 and was a fellow of RBS. Woodford was a prolific producer of figurative sculpture. Among his notable works were bronze doors at the RIBA; main doors at Norwich City Hall; stone figures and panels, Huddersfield Library and Art Gallery; statue of Robin Hood in Nottingham; sculpture for Imperial War Graves Commission British cemeteries in Italy; new design of Royal Coat of Arms, 1962; and many coats of arms for government buildings in Britain and abroad. Woodford's output is widely illustrated: in the volume RBS: Modern British Sculpture, published 1939; in Arthur T Broadbent's Sculpture Today in Great Britain 1940-1943, published 1949; and he was included in Sculpture In Britain Between The Wars, Fine Art Society, 1986. Lived in Twickenham, Middlesex.