Erection date: /7/1985
{Top plaque:}
Jete (1975) by Enzo Plazzotta, unveiled by The Rt. Hon. The Earl of Gowrie, Minister for the Arts, in July 1985.
{Lower plaque:}
Sculpture based on the dancer David Wall and cast by the Morris Singer Foundry Limited.
SW1, Millbank, 48
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Dancer statue
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Dancer statue
Alexander Patrick Greysteil Hore-Ruthven, 2nd Earl of Gowrie, PC, FRSL, was b...
Sculptor. Born at Mestre, near Venice. Worked in London for more than half hi...
Founded by John Webb Singer as the Frome Art Metal Works. Cast many of the be...
The niche on the north face holds a marble statue of the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII, in Field Marshal's uniform. Carved in the sto...
Bronze statue by Westmacott of "The Grand Old Duke of York" of nursery rhyme fame. Funds for the statue were raised by stopping one day's...
{On the front of the plinth and repeated on the back:} Viscount Palmerston {On the base of the statue:} T. Woolner, RA, Sc. 1876 R. Mas...
Excluding the allegories (such as Knowledge) there are 36 statues on the two public façades of the V&A Museum, on Exhibition Road and...
Criticised at the time as the "worst piece of sculpture in England".
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