This time the photo is merely enhanced and has been shown the right way up. The handprint, if I'm right, is now in the middle of the top edge of the picture with thumb pointing upwards and fingers pointing up towards the right.
This is part of a 'typical' Hepworth standing bronze sculpture by the lake side in the newly refurbished Battersea Pleasure Gardens.
I seem to remember seeing The Burghers Of Calais somewhere in Westminster [link] . I was leading a walking party around the sights of London and we didn't pause long enough to examine it for fingerprints.
i love his stuff.some of it looks like he moulded the metal like putty in his hands. i don't remember, but on at least one sculpture his fingerprints are actually visible. there was an exhibit here in Calgary, Alberta, a couple of years ago.