Statues - Hither & Thither

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Liverpool
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Lime Street (L1)
(The North Western Hotel)

Europe and America

Description

Two allegorical female figures. The one on the left wears a castellated crown. In her right hand she holds callipers and a mason's chisel. Her left hand rests on a shield bearing the device of a rearing horse. At her feet is a bust of a Greek-helmeted woman. The figure to the right wears a feathered head-dress. Her left hand rests upon an unstrung bow. She has a sheaf of arrows over her right shoulder. A small reptile (perhaps intended to be a cayman) stands on her right, its tail curled around to the back.
Because of these attributes, Cavanagh suggests that they represent Europe and America.

Liverpool - Europe and America

Sculptor

Farmer & Brindley, firm of architectural sculptors and ornamentalists based in London, founded by William Farmer (1825-1879) and William Brindley (1832-1919), who contributed to some of the greatest structures of the Victorian era (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Wikipedia, North Western Hotel, Liverpool.
Terry Cavanagh, Public Sculpture of Liverpool. Liverpool University Press, 1997, pp. 87.
Bob Speel, Sculpture around St George's Hall, Liverpool.

Locatie (N 53°24'29" - W 2°58'44") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: gbnw086; Photograph: 18 June 2023
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