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Foley's plaster model was given to the Royal Dublin Society, and was used for the reproduction of bronze statuettes by Elkington & Co. A bronze replica, also cast by Elkington, is in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle in England. A further plaster version, formerly in the vestibule of the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, was damaged sometime during the Second World War of 1939-1945 and had to be destroyed. A bronze version was acquired by the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, in 1997. There is a discrepancy in the spelling of the surname of the artist who made this reduced plaster copy. In a number of scholarly catalogues and dictionaries of artists he is listed as 'Hodson', but in the V&A's records and in its <i>Review of Principal Acquisitions for 1930</i> he is 'Hudson'. What is certain is that Sir George Frederick Hodson or Hudson was an Irish painter who exhibited landscapes and figures at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, from 1827. 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