Gill, Eric
Christ driving the Moneychangers from the Temple
Details
Artist(s): Gill, Eric (1882-1940)(Artist)
Title: Christ driving the Moneychangers from the Temple
Date created: 1923
Accession number: LEEUA 1923.074
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/247
Collection group(s): University Art Collection | Public art
Description
Miss Frances Cross of Ripon donated £1,000 to be used for the benefit of the University, 'out of personal gratitude and admiration for [Sadler's] work at the University'. Sadler used the money to secure completion of a project which he had been considering since 1916, to commission a war memorial from the sculptor Eric Gill. Originally positioned on the South wall of the old library, the work caused outrage when it first appeared, see Yorkshire Post. It was dedicated by the Bishop of Ripon, 1 June, 1923.
Physical characteristics
Category: Sculpture
Technique: carved relief; public sculpture
Medium: portland stone
Object: width 4811mm height 1691mm depth 226mm
Features
Along the cornice is inscribed: AGITE NUNC, DIVITES, PLORATE ULULANTES IN MISERIIS VESTRIS, QUAE ADVENIENT VOBIS. DIVITIAE VESTRAE PUTREFACTAE SUNT (Vulgate, James, V, 1 :'Go to now, you rich men, weep and howl in your miseries which shall come upon you. your riches are putrid.' In the panel above the dog: ET CUM FECISSET QUASI FLAGELLUM DE FUNICULIS, OMNES EJECIT DE TEMPLO, ET NUMULARIORUM EFFUDIT AES, ET MENSAS SUBVERTIT. ET DIXIT: NOLITE FACERE DOMUM PATRIS MEI DOMUM NEGOTIATIONIS (Vulgate, John, II, 15: 'And when he had made as it were a little whip of cords, he ejected all from the temple, and the money of the moneychangers he poured out and overthrew their tables. And he sais, Do not make my Father's house a house of commercialism'.
Accession details
Accession number: LEEUA 1923.074
Accession date: 1923
Source: Commission; Gill, Eric
On our website
Online exhibition: Eric Gill - Christ driving the Moneychangers from the Temple
Eric Gill (1882 - 1940): Christ driving the Moneychanger from the Temple. One example of public art on the campus of the University of Leeds