This bust is a 20th-century replica after Louis-François Roubiliac, 1757.
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:
Sir Robert Cotton
Antiquarian and politician. Born Robert Bruce Cotton in Denton, Huntingdonshi...
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Sir Robert Cotton
Sculptor. Born Lyon. Made his reputation in 1749 with the tomb of the Duke of...
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Sir Robert Cotton
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.
This huge building, Grade 2 listed and in need of a clean, is actually 18 buildings behind a unifying facade designed by W. D. Caroe, in ...
{Inscribed on the plinth just below the bust:} Shakespeare {Below this there is an open marble book with a small marble scroll above. O...
In the spandrels above the entrance door: "Bloomsbury Rifles Pro Patria Semper" ('for my country always'). The technique used for this le...
{On a masonry shield just below Victoria's bust:} Jubilee 1837
This plaque is so well integrated into the façade we believe it was part of the design.
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