{"id":520870,"date":"2026-03-07T17:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T17:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/520870\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T17:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T17:56:08","slug":"birmingham-bullrings-bull-sketches-sell-at-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/520870\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham Bullring’s bull sketches sell at auction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Original sketches which were the working designs for Birmingham’s famous bronze bull have been sold at auction after being discovered following the sculptor’s death.<\/p>\n

The portfolio of 14 signed drawings, found at the home of Laurence Broderick, were bought by an online bidder in the UK for \u00a32,600 plus fees, said Batemans Auctioneers.<\/p>\n

Notes by Broderick on one say the “14th drawing and it was the drawing I decided to make”, revealing the chosen design from which the 4.5m statue outside the Bullring was created. <\/p>\n

Stephen Drake, of Batemans, said he was visiting<\/a> the family’s home to assess related works when in a “fantastic moment” the portfolio was pulled out from under a bed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Original sketches which were the working designs for Birmingham’s famous bronze bull have been sold at auction after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":["post-520870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}