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John Hancock, (1825-1869), Christ led to Crucifiction, a patinated copper electrotype relief panel, with Christ shouldering the Cross to the left of centre, with soldiery, mourners and children before and behind him, inscribed 'JOHN HANCOCK 1851' to lower left, later mounted in an ebonised and parcel gilt wood moulding frame, the electrotype 27cm high, 69cm wide, overall dimensions 30.5cm high, 73cm wide; and an engraving of the work, inscribed 'Christ led to Crucifiction. Engraved by the anaglyptograph, from the original bas-relief by John Hancock. Art Union of London, 1853', mounted, framed and glazed, 51cm high, 90.5cm wide Comparative Literature: Benedict Read and Joanna Barnes (Ed), Pre-Raphaelite Sculpture, Nature and Imagination in British Sculpture 1848-1914, Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd., 1991, pp 104-105