Rock Drill (Jacob Epstein)
Rock Drill and the associated Torso in Metal from Rock Drill are Jacob Epstein's most radical sculptures.
The original work, displayed at Brighton City Art Gallery, December 1913 to January 1914
Torso in Metal, at Tate Britain
The 1974 reproduction, at Birmingham
Sir Jacob Epstein was an American-British sculptor who helped pioneer modern sculpture. He was born in the United States, and moved to Europe in 1902, becoming a British subject in 1910.
Jacob Epstein, photographed in 1921 by George Charles Beresford
A type of a laboring man from The Spirit of the Ghetto, 1902
Monument of Oscar Wilde.
Epstein's 1913 sculpture Rock Drill in its original form.