Terrence Cuneo statue
SE1, Waterloo Station
See that book on the floor behind Cuneo? It hides a wee mouse, like those often found in Cuneo's paintings. July 2014 Kent Online info...
See that book on the floor behind Cuneo? It hides a wee mouse, like those often found in Cuneo's paintings. July 2014 Kent Online info...
The rescue of this sculpture is given in Indie London.
12 foot high, bronze. Unveiled by Lady Churchill.
9 foot 5 inches, bronze on a plinth at the centre of a low stepped platform. Unveiled by the Queen.
Criticised at the time as the "worst piece of sculpture in England".
Unveiled by the Queen. Modelled by Jackson on the 1929 statue by Goulden in the Foreign Office.
This was the first statue ever to be made from a photograph. There is a copy at Mowbray Park, Sunderland.
Sculpted by Kathleen Scott, his widow. There is a replica, in Christchurch, New Zealand, carved in marble, white as the Antarctic.
The original inscription stopped after "New Zealand." In 1928 the British Empire League, with the necessary approval, added the rest.
{On the front of the plinth:} To the great arctic navigator and his brave companions who sacrificed their lives in completing the discov...
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