Making coloured glass eyeballs Size:M: 75 x 60cm but here is represented by

but here is represented by Britannia who has her eyes fixed so firmly on the distant horizon that she fails entirely to see the three children at her feet who

pictured in the vegetable garden of her home in Putney

posed standing

Sir John Pitt Chatham is a goose and Charles Philip Yorke is a bear

Making coloured glass eyeballs Size:M: 75 x 60cm but here is represented byMaking coloured glass eyeballs, c1914 c1918. Master craftsmen use cut glass and enamel to make glass eyes for soldiers who lost their eyes in the First World War. A bulb of glass is blown and colour applied (top left); the eyes are baked and the colours set (top right); the eyeball is cut to fit (bottom left); the finished article is carefully polished (bottom right).