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Virtues - Humour

Erection date: 25/11/1952

Inscription

{On the front cover of the book:} Who's Who

Lady Diana Cooper as Britannia sits on a lion which clutches a Union Jack shield. She holds the book 'Who's Who' and is awarding a laurel wreath to a comical fat-bellied chap in top hat and tails, who is tugging her drapery. Dressed as a gentleman this 'Punch' character has facial similarities with the character that often figured on front pages of the magazine Punch.

Site: National Gallery - Anrep mosaics - Virtues (15 memorials)

WC2, Trafalgar Square, National Gallery - Staircase Hall - North Vestibule

See National Gallery - Anrep mosaics - Muses for general information about these mosaic floors.

The 1954 'Modern Virtues' is in a style very different from that of the earlier 'Muses' floor, with scenes depicted inside frames which carry each scene’s title. These panels appear to be laid on a mosaic floor with a geometric pattern, on which autumnal leaves have fallen – trompe l'oeil in mosaic.

This 'Modern Virtues' floor was gifted (which we take to mean funded) by Maud Russell and opened on 25 November 1952.

To avoid database clutter we have put the Creator links on just the page for the Anrep panel.

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This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Virtues - Humour

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Punch magazine

Founded in early June 1841 at a meeting at the Edinburgh Castle public house ...

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Lady Diana Cooper

Renowned beauty, actress, aristocrat, socialite and political wife. Diana Co...

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This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Virtues - Humour

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Virtues - Anrep

Virtues - Anrep

Carved at the top of the gravestone is a portrait of Anrep himself. The image...

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Virtues - Compassion

Virtues - Compassion

Anna Akhmatova, looking towards Anrep's gravestone (in another panel) and sur...

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Virtues - Compromise

Virtues - Compromise

We initially thought this odd scene may refer to one of Loretta Young's films...

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Virtues - Curiosity

Virtues - Curiosity

Lord Rutherford wears a coronet - he had been raised to the peerage in 1931. ...

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Virtues - Defiance

Virtues - Defiance

In front of the white cliffs of Dover Winston Churchill, in his signature sir...

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Nearby Memorials

General Post Office capital

General Post Office capital

E17, Vestry Road, Vestry House Museum

185cm high x 160cm wide x 160cm deep and over 5 tons.

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Virtues - Pursuit

Virtues - Pursuit

WC2, Trafalgar Square, National Gallery - Staircase Hall - North Vestibule

Fred Hoyle became known for his original, even controversial, approach to his topic. Here, to observe the glittering, swirling, celestial...

1 subject commemorated
Dick Whittington and his cat - Highgate

Dick Whittington and his cat - Highgate

N19, Highgate Hill

British History OnlineĀ (1878) says that in about 1795 "the original stone, being broken in two pieces, was removed hence to the corner of...

2 subjects commemorated, 5 creators
Start of the third Millennium in Belgrave Square

Start of the third Millennium in Belgrave Square

SW1, Belgrave Square

The poetry is from "Auguries of Innocence" by William Blake.For other armillary spheres see Wolff.

2 subjects commemorated, 2 creators
St Mary's Hospital - Fifth Army

St Mary's Hospital - Fifth Army

W2, Norfolk Place, St Mary's Hospital - Cambridge wing

The red fox was the insignia of the Fifth Army.

2 subjects commemorated