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Row of elephant statues at Ruwanwelisaya in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka January 27, 2012. Photo by Tim Chong
statues and busts adorning the corridors of the Uffizi Galleries was gathered by the Medici family and is made up of Roman copies after lost Greek originals.
Life-size statues of Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, California
A statue of Venus in Donostia/San Sebastian nex tto the Victoria Eugenia Antzokia. It is sculpted in marble and dates from around 1862 as far as I can gather.
Peter Denny FRSE LLD (25 October 1821 – 22 August 1895) was a shipbuilder and shipowner based in Dumbarton, Scotland. Denny was the son of William Denny (1779-1833) and his wife Christeanne Macintyre. He was first apprenticed to a local lawyer and then to the Dumbarton glassworks. Aged 21 he returned to shipbuilding, which was the established family occupation, and worked as a bookkeeper for Robert Napier and Sons. Quoted from Wikipedia
History: The statue is signed by Andries Carpentiere, a pupil of John van Nost; it was probably cast from the same mould supplied by Van Nost to Sir Nicholas Shireburn of Stonyhurst, Lancashire sometime between 1705 and 1716. This example was probably cast using Montgomeryshire lead from the Llangynog mines owned by the Powis family. Its original position at Powis was as the centrepiece of a fountain in the Baroque water gardens at the foot of the garden terraces which had been largely completed by 1705. The water garden was demolished between 1801 and 1809, and the statue was then moved and re- sited over the W gateway into the courtyard. Some time after this, it was removed to the centre of the courtyard, where G.F.Bodley designed a basin for it. This was unsuccessful, however, although the statue itself remained in the courtyard. Restored in 1987, the lead trophy of arms (based on the original work which formed the source for the group by Antoine Coysevox for Louis XIV) and the stone plinth were added at that time.
Description: Lead statue mounted on a stone base. The statue depicts the winged female figure of Fame borne by Pegasus.
A fine example of Baroque sculpture which forms a dramatic centrepiece at the entrance to the castle, and which is of additional historical interest as it was made for the castle - a relic of the lost water-gardens.
Statue in Caerphilly to celebrate Welsh anthem and its writer The statue will be located in Caerphilly town centre to commemorate Evan James.
Mr James was born in 1809 in Caerphilly town, later moving to Argoed, near Blackwood, and then to Bedwellty parish.
In 1832, one of Mr James' seven children, James James, was born in Bedwellty and the harpist helped his father write the Welsh National Anthem - Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau (Land of My Fathers) - in early1856.
July 13, 2021: Ellis Island welcomes a new Statue and Rise and Resist was there with a message about US Immigration.
Statue on Brighton Beach, early one morning :)
The Angel is a memorial to King Edward VII, sculpted by Newbury Trent.
Angel,
Melbourne Cemetery.
One of my sons is in hospital at the moment so I'm feeling sad. It's so strange not having him near me and I pray he'll be well, and home again soon.
GADZOOKS!
This made Explore Sep 13, 2009 #494
Cool!
I almost walked past this beautiful hindu or buddist statue that seems to be saying "Safety first".
One thing about this two week trip:
Digital SLRs have come of age.
All 3 cameras performed without a hitch.
I did not take along a laptop to download the images every night.
Instead I used a 16GB memory card in each camera and carried one spare battery for each.
Simple.
I dislike using computers when on vacation and am quite happy with the state of things now.
Oh yeah, all three cameras passed through several scanners without a hitch.
Another interesting statue seen in Koblenz Germany.
Peter Schneider, a hawker who walked from door to door trying to sell braces, laces and newspapers.
His nickname comes from a certain disease he suffered from; a form of neuropathy which affected his way of walking, causing strange looking movements of his limbs.
People were reminded of caoutchouc and therefore named him 'rubber'.