The historical context of the period when the sculpture was commissioned and executed is mentioned in a note in the article for J. W. Burrow on his books A Liberal Descent: Victorian historians and the English past and The Crisis of Reason: European Thought, 1848-1914.
The theme of the inscription on the plinth of the statue (alluding to the poet's lament for the passing of 'Sweet Auburn', Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village) may also be seen in connection with what Burrow mentions in the later book The Crisis of Reason: European Thought, 1848-1914: '...the growth of great cities with mass population....
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