I think, therfore I is, was, am?
Rodin's The Thinker, in The Burrell Collection, Glasgow. This is one of a total of twenty one castings from the original mould which went to the French government as payment of taxes. The first cast was numbered "1". The remaining 20, cast before 1921, are not numbered.
The statue was originally created to sit on top of the lintel of a huge bronze portal structure, The Gates of (to?) Hell, intended for a new museum, which was never built.
The above view is not how the statue was intended to be seen as it was well above the viewer. The limbs are slightly out of proportion, compared with the "extra" photo below, taken from "below", on my knees.
Later, from a moving car, I grabbed the other extra, sun setting beyond Aran, Troon aspect.
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