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.
Built in 1892 by Charles Henman Jr. this heavily decorated complex of buildings makes up Croydon's Town Hall. The building and the rounde...
{Inscribed on the plinth just below the bust:} Shakespeare {Below this there is an open marble book with a small marble scroll above. O...
Statues Hither and Thither has been invaluable in identifying some of the busts and most of the statues. The statues are not labelled and...
Unveiled by the Duke of Edinburgh.
The library, by E. Vincent Harris and opened in 1960, is the building to the south, the left of our picture. The Library Time Machine mus...
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