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This work belongs to a trilogy in which Crook challenges Greek mythology by giving the  upper hand to the female subject. Of the medal, the artist says: ‘I wanted to make a set of three medals based on stone carvings which I made around three Greek myths. I felt that these myths – Leda and the swan, Apollo and Daphne (Museum no.A.12-2004), and Europa and the Bull (Musuem no. A.13-2004)– needed some re-working. I wanted to free the women  in them from the role of “victim”. In Leda and the hat-pin, the first in the series,  we see the concluding episode of the story, hitherto unpublished. The swan is unable to escape being made into a fancy hat – which Leda tidies up nicely with  a hat-pin.’ ","physicalDescription":"Medal, circular, cast in silver with dark patination. The obverse shows a female head, three-quarter, wearing a swan-shaped hat, her arm wrapped around the hat against the edge of the medal, and holding a hat pin. 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