Chasing
A final process used in finishing a sculpture made in bronze. Once cast and cooled chisels and punches are used to remove imperfections and holes, and to create fine detail. The surface is then polished and smoothed down.
OF 2
Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Robert Browning
by Harriet Goodhue Hosmer
1853
NPG 3165
Florence Nightingale
by Sir John Robert Steell
1862
NPG 1748
Sir James Dewar
by Cernigliari Melilli
1906
NPG 2118
Albert Ball
by Henry Poole
1920s
NPG 2277
Sir (Francis) Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Bt
by Frank Owen Dobson
1994 (1922)
NPG 6321
Sir William Turner Walton
by Maurice Lambert
circa 1925
NPG 5913
Aldous Huxley
by Paul Hamann
1930
NPG 5403
King George VI
by Leon Underwood
1937
NPG 6356
OF 2
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