This powerful sculpture from 1962 relates to Meadows' interest in Renaissance sculptures prompted by his 1960 visit to Florence. He worked almost exclusively on the theme of armed figures from 1961 to 1965. He was fascinated by the contrast of the hard outer shell of armour with the implied soft interior of man. In the artist's own words:figures are armoured, aggressive, protected, but inside the safety of the shell they are completely soft and vulnerable". Likening them to business tycoons "protected by the paraphernalia of their offices and retinues, but who are soft inside. Bullies are frightened people."

(Bernard Meadows in lan Bowness, Bernard Meadows. Sculpture and Drawings, The Henry Moore Foundation in association with Lund Humphries Publishers, London, 1995, p.15)