Stone Child

by Kevin Albin
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This huge bronze statue of Achilles by Sir Richard Westmacott, stands in Hyde Park. It was erected in 1822, and paid for my the women of England to commemorate the Duke of Wellington, who apparently was not impressed with the nudity of the statute; it was originally made without the fig leaf.

 

Question 3.

What was melted down and used to make this statue, and what is the statue's other name? 

 

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