Rock Drill (Jacob Epstein) Modernism more dramatically than any other sculpture, English or continental, then or since". Jacob Epstein (1880–1959) was an American-born sculptor who had moved to Europe in 1902, and taken British citizenship in 1911. Although Epstein was not officially a member of the Vorticists, not having signed the Vorticist Manifesto, the full-figure sculpture has also been hailed as the pinnacle of Vorticist art. Originally a positive statement, "Rock Drill" stood as a celebration of modern machinery and masculine virility. Wyndham Lewis described the sculpture as 'one of the best things he [Epstein] has done. The nerve-like figure perched on the machinery,
Joseph Hepworth (tailor) further establishing shops to sell their suits direct to the public. By 1890 they employed 2,000 operatives who sold their stock through 107 shops. Joseph Hepworth died in Harrogate in 1911 and within 6 years of his death "Joseph Hepworth & Son" was the largest clothing manufacturer in the United Kingdom. Hepworth married Sarah Rhodes in 1855 they went on to have three sons and four daughters. Joseph Hepworth (tailor) Joseph Hepworth (1834–1911) was the clothing manufacturer who founded "Joseph Hepworth & Son", a company which grew to become the United Kingdom's largest clothing manufacturer and which is now known