Title

The New Inland Revenue Office - Statues just placed on the New Front of Somerset House, 1857. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

The New Inland Revenue Office - Statues just placed on the New Front of Somerset House, 1857. 'These statues personify the three principal cities of the United Kingdom - London, Edinburgh, and Dublin. London is represented holding a sceptre in her right hand, and in her left a wreath of laurel: she is murally crowned, and the hair falls upon the shoulders in large curls...The drapery is very boldly treated...The figure of Edinburgh is gracefully treated. She is attired in a rather close dress, over which is thrown a mantle...in the left hand she has a spear...Dublin is perhaps the least successful of the three personifications of the cities - the drapery does not hang so well. She holds in her right hand and supports on the right hip the harp of Erin; in the left hand she bears a scroll, partly unrolled...The statue of London is by Legrew; and those of Edinburgh and Dublin are by Theed'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM23A76_218

Model release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

29,9Mb (1,5Mb) / 13,0in x 8,9in / 3900 x 2681 (300dpi)

Keywords

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