Made from fibreglass resin with bronze powders (‘resin bronze’), this sculpture suffered vandal damage in 2001. Although it was originally thought that the vandal had painted the eyes with silver paint, on closer inspection it was clear that someone had picked away the top layer of resin in the eye area, revealing a silver-coloured, secondary layer beneath.

New material was carefully built up in the damaged areas, to restore the eyes to their original form, using reference photographs which we hold on file from previous inspections.

The statue was moved to the south-east corner of St Paul's Churchyard and is one of the 45 public sculptures which we maintain annually for the City of London.