This bust is a 20th-century replica after G. B. Comolli, 19th century.
NW1, Euston Road, The British Library
All the sculptures are inside the main building.
See Father Jellicoe for the Gilbert Bayes finials, some of which are/were on display in the BL.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Thomas Grenville
Bibliophile and politician. He was commissioned briefly in the Coldstream Gua...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Thomas Grenville
Italian sculptor. From Wikipedia: After 1816 till about 1820, he moved to Lon...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Thomas Grenville
This inscription is opposite the entrance, below the Shakespeare statue.
This bust is a 20th-century replica after Michael Rysbrack, 18th century.
This bust is a 20th-century replica after Anne Seymour Damer, 1814.
The roundels on the north, river-facing, frontage are occupied by, left to right: Anson, Drake, Cook, Howard, Blake, Benbow, Sandwich, Ro...
The weather has removed all the hair and costume details which are essential for any chance of identifying the person represented. Chauc...
The busts are on the Randolph Avenue elevation, at first floor level. We've numbered them left to right. The listing text mentions the bu...
The west face is framed with pilasters each side, decorated with emblems of "war" to the left and "peace" to the right. Carved in the sto...
This 1860 building, by architect James Knowles Snr, is studded with many portrait busts of which we believe only these 14 are representat...
