Sarah Kent (A Bestiary for our time, the sculpture of Elisabeth Frink, reproduced in B. Robertson, op. cit., p. 64) comments, 'the first sufferers in her work were animals and birds like the Dead hen (1956) - a pathetically crumpled carcass, sprawled out crookedly on its back, legs sticking stiffly up, mouth open in a final squawk of rage, pain and fear. One can't help seeing this and other corpses as victims of the strutting cocks and menacing eagles of the same period'.