Carol Aikman
I don't know who this statue is meant to be, but she looked rather lovely among all the greenery in the Conservatory in the Fitzroy Gardens.
She is an echo of all the classical-style statues (really, casts) installed in the Fitzroy Gardens in the 1860s, when the Gardens were a formal urban garden. I think there were close to a hundred statues positioned along the (then fenced) paths.
Fashions in garden design and ideas about urban planning change, of course, and there was much debate about the statues in the 1930s. They ended up being removed in a single night-time operation in the 1930s orchestrated by the city's council.
I don't know who this statue is meant to be, but she looked rather lovely among all the greenery in the Conservatory in the Fitzroy Gardens.
She is an echo of all the classical-style statues (really, casts) installed in the Fitzroy Gardens in the 1860s, when the Gardens were a formal urban garden. I think there were close to a hundred statues positioned along the (then fenced) paths.
Fashions in garden design and ideas about urban planning change, of course, and there was much debate about the statues in the 1930s. They ended up being removed in a single night-time operation in the 1930s orchestrated by the city's council.