230-Year-Old Historic Statue Defaced With Blue Crayons In UK
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Bright blue crayon markings were seen scrawled across the face, arms, and torso of the statue at Croome, Worcester.
A 230-year-old historic statue of the water nymph Sabrina has been vandalized, British conservation charity the National Trust said. The artwork depicting a reclining Sabrina, a water nymph from Welsh fairytales, was found on April 9 entirely covered in doodles.
The statue was defaced after an Easter event at historic Croome Court, where children visiting the mansion and its gardens were given a pack of crayons, according to the BBC.
Bright blue crayon markings were seen scrawled across the face, arms, and torso of the statue at Croome, Worcester. The unidentified vandals also drew on a nearby plaque commemorating Lancelot Capability Brown, an 18th-century British landscape architect.
John Bacon sculpted the statue of Sabrina around 1802, according to the National Trust. The sculpture is carved from Coade stone and sits in a grotto that was originally decorated with exotic shells, coral, and gems.
