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The Allenton Hippo is a hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) skeleton that was found in Allenton, Derby, England, in 1895. [1] The skeleton is exhibited in Derby Museum and Art Gallery and is 3 metres (9.8 ft) in length. It is celebrated today in a sculpture near to where the skeleton was discovered. [2]
The Allenton Hippo is a substantive hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) skeleton that was found in Allenton, Derby, England in 1895. The skeleton is exhibited in Derby Museum and Art Gallery and is 3 metres (9.8 ft) in length. It is celebrated today in a sculpture near to where the skeleton was discovered.
The "Allenton Hippo" was unveiled in 2007 in Osmaston Road in Derby. It celebrates the Allenton hippopotamus, fossilised bones of a hippopotamus living about 125,000 years ago, discovered nearby in 1895, and now in Derby Museum and Art Gallery. Iron casts of the bones are on a black granite bench, the bench forming a broken ring. [5] [6]
Commissioned by Derby City Council, it forms a circular seating area on which are laser-scanned copies and models of some of the key bones of the Allenton Hippo skeleton at the Derby Museum and Art Gallery. [2] An easily recognisable feature of the local streetscape is a pedestrian footbridge over the Mitre Island roundabout, erected in July 1971.
Pope learnt and gained experience in techniques such as welding and brazing which he exploited later for artistic reasons. After the end of the war he went to London to study sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art with Prof. F. McWilliam. Pope continued studying ceramics afterward at Woolwich Polytechnic with the ceramist Heber Matthews. [1]
Herkomer boasted of the wide variety of styles of his students who were encouraged to paint from life and ignore intellectual art theories. [3] His students included William Nicholson and Lucy Kemp-Welch. "Clearing the Potato Field" at the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery. On a second visit to Bushey in 1898, Fidler met and married Laura Clunas.
Known as "Jack", Keene trained at Derby Central School of Art from 1878 to 1895. [2] Keene managed the family business with his brother Charles after their father's death. Alfred John Keene was a founder member, in 1887, of the Derby Sketching Club with F Booty, William Swindell, George Thompson, Charles Terry And Frank Timms.
A watercolor by Holtzendorff (c. 1882), with a view of Becket Street, Derby, with the Derby Museum and Art Gallery in the background, is the only remaining study on paper linked to the Gladstone service. [3]