Oct 20: The lost bow

Detail of a statue in Regents Park. From www.weekendnotes.co.uk/statues-in-queen-marys-gardens "The Lost Bow is my favourite statue because I just find it so intriguing. The bronze depicts a muscular toddler in a helmet sitting on top of a vulture. It looks as if he is about to attack the vulture, but the arrow which presumably was once in his hand is now missing. I am assuming this is a Roman god of some sort, but I have no idea who. Cupid would be the first to come to mind with his arrows, but that hardly fits the warrior depicted in this scene. The the Grade II listed bronze was sculpted by Albert H Hodge (1875 - 1918) in 1910, and presented to the park in 1939."

Pentax K-3, SMC Pentax 150mm f/4 lens.