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The figure of Adelbert Wellington Brownlow Cust, 3rd Earl Brownlow, stands atop a dome on a fluted spreading base. He wears a greatcoat with its lapels upturned slightly, boots with spurs, and a peaked cap with a General Officer’s cap badge. He holds a pair of binoculars in one hand and gloves in the other. The base is decorated with four friezes: two show the Machine Gun Corps with their artillery, one shows the insignia of a Brigadier General, with green laurel leaves and ‘MGC’ ‘1917’ inscribed, and the fourth shows the Cust coat of arms, with ‘Esse Quam Videre’ (‘To be, rather than to seem’) inscribed on banners.

National Trust, Belton House

Grantham

Title

The Brownlow Trophy from the Machine Gun Corps

Date

1917

Medium

bronze & wood

Measurements

H 46 x W 23 x D 23 cm

Accession number

435353

Work type

Sculpture

Inscription description

inscribed: MGC; 1917; Esse Quam Videre (‘To be, rather than to seem’); inscribed on banners: presented by the | machine gun training centre | to the earl brownlow pc adc | as a memento of many kindnesses

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