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Ama Menec writes This striding athletic figure is of Regency lesbian icon Anne Lister, better known to many as `Gentleman Jack` from the TV BBC/HBO series.
This is a maquette for a proposed sculpture for the University of York, for their newly opened Anne Lister College. This sculpture sees Anne Lister climbing the highest peak in the French Pyrenees, which she was the first to officially climb in 1832, in skirts! The sculpture shows her vigour and good stride, her upright stance and her determination to succeed. In her right hand she holds a copy of her famous diaries, her left hand is open in an invitation to join her on her adventures.
Around the outside edge of the mountain range is the most famous of the quotes from her diary written in its original `crypt hand` or code, which carries the translation in cursive writing underneath.
Around the inside edge is a list of her achievements, including the ever erased `L-word` and ending with the word `Mountaineer` just below the peak of Vignemale.
Artist's Comment
Anne Lister maquette (Bronze Lesbian Heroin sculpture)s
by Ama Menec
£3,000
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