The sculptor, designer and painter Alfred Stevens (1817/18-1875) was chief designer to Hoole & Co., Sheffield, between 1850 and 1857. Maquettes for the figures of these andirons are preserved in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum (D Bilbey and M. Trusted, British Sculpture 1470 to 2000: A Concise Catalogue of the Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2002, nos. 550, 551., pp. 366-7).

Literature Beattie, Susan, The New Sculpture, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1983, p2