Grosvenor Hotel - head 10
SW1, Buckingham Palace Road, Grosvenor Hotel
This 1860 building, by architect James Knowles Snr, is studded with many portrait busts of which we believe only these 14 are representat...
This 1860 building, by architect James Knowles Snr, is studded with many portrait busts of which we believe only these 14 are representat...
This 1860 building, by architect James Knowles Snr, is studded with many portrait busts of which we believe only these 14 are representat...
This 1860 building, by architect James Knowles Snr, is studded with many portrait busts of which we believe only these 14 are representat...
This 1860 building, by architect James Knowles Snr, is studded with many portrait busts of which we believe only these 14 are representat...
Researching this bust we failed to ID the man, and worse, we discovered that there was another bust on the building, obliterated by the 1...
We double checked the "1881" - that is what is carved, it's not our mistype. She was born September 1880.
We are reasonbly happy with our identifcation of this head.
We are not certain of the identification.
The collar, the hair-line, the facial growths - we hope you agree that this is Harvey.
Apologies for the lack of focus on this one - partly due to the carving being so weather-worn that our camera had trouble focussing (when...