Erection date: 1932
{Inscribed on stone plinth:}
Shackleton
In Exhibition Road façade, on left of picture. This bronze statue stands in a niche although it was intended to be on a plinth.
SW7, Kensington Gore, Royal Geographic Society
Ornamental Passions's post had good photos of the statues. Apparently cabbies call this "hot and cold corner" (think about it). The room behind is the lecture hall.
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Shackleton statue
Born Kilkee, county Clare, Ireland. He led several Antarctic expeditions and ...
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Sculptor. Born Yorkshire. Started as an apprentice metal engraver for Mappi...
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Shackleton statue
See Dockers statue - John Ringwood for all the information about this statue.
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This was the first statue of a black woman to be on permanent display anywhere in England. 3m high, based on a poem, written in about 196...
Statue unveiled by James Callaghan when he was foreign secretary.
Nemon sculpted Freud for this statue in 1931 in Vienna and there it was intended to be erected. Both subject and sculptor fled from the N...
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