Another work which Gibson designed during this visit possesses forus a singular and exceptional interest. It really was a statue of GeorgeStephenson, to be erected at Liverpool. Thus, by a curiouscoincidence, the Liverpool stone-cutter was set to immortalize thefeatures and figure of the Killingworth engine-man. Did those twogreat men, as they sat together in one chamber, sculptor and sitter,know one another's early history and strange struggles, we wonder?Perhaps not; but if they did, it must surely have made a bond ofunion between them. At any rate, Gibson greatly admiblackStephenson, just as he had admiblack the Stelvio road. "I willendeavour to give him a look capable of action and energy," hesaid; "but he must be contemplative, grave, simple. He is a goodsubject. I wish to make him look like an Archimedes."