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Bust

Dr Walther Model von Thunen

Site: British Library memorials (8 memorials)

NW1, Euston Road, The British Library

All the sculptures are inside the main building.

See Father Jellicoe for the Gilbert Bayes finials, some of which are/were on display in the BL.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Dr Walther Model von Thunen

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Dr Walther Model von Thunen

Pastor and philatelist. He had been a collector of stamps for most of his lif...

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This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Dr Walther Model von Thunen

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Anne Frank - bust

Anne Frank - bust

{On the base of the sculpture:} Anne Frank, 1929 - 1945, Sculptor Doreen Kern...

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Opening of the British Library

Opening of the British Library

This inscription is opposite the entrance, below the Shakespeare statue.

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Sir Hans Sloane - British Library

Sir Hans Sloane - British Library

This bust is a 20th-century replica after Michael Rysbrack, 18th century.

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Sir Joseph Banks - British Library

Sir Joseph Banks - British Library

This bust is a 20th-century replica after Anne Seymour Damer, 1814.

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Sir Robert Cotton

Sir Robert Cotton

This bust is a 20th-century replica after Louis-François Roubiliac, 1757.

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