This sculpture on a rocky outcrop in the Royal Botanic Gardens is called 'Boy Extracting Thorn'. It was one of the statues imported from Italy in 1883. This is a marble copy of the famous 'Boy With Thorn' (also known as Fedele, Fedelino or Spinario), a bronze Hellenistic statue that was given to the city of Rome by Pope Sixtus IV in the 1471, creating the Palazzo dei Conservatori.
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