This bust is a 20th-century replica after Louis-François Roubiliac, 1757.
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.
A plaque near the 4 busts in their brick roundels describes them as "the founders".
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Sir Robert Cotton
Antiquarian and politician. Born Robert Bruce Cotton in Denton, Huntingdonshi...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Sir Robert Cotton
Sculptor. Born Lyon. Made his reputation in 1749 with the tomb of the Duke of...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Sir Robert Cotton
This inscription is opposite the entrance, below the Shakespeare statue.
This bust is a 20th-century replica after Michael Rysbrack, 18th century.
This bust is a 20th-century replica after Anne Seymour Damer, 1814.
The arcade contains four modern busts, left to right: Pepys Cromwell Shakespeare Wren and a statue of Whittington to the left.
2024: This whole block is a building site so we have marked these memorials as being lost. Possibly they will be reinstated when the dev...
Statues Hither and Thither has been invaluable in identifying some of the busts and most of the statues. The statues are not labelled and...
Bust was made in 1980, the same year that Camden gave permission for it to be placed in the square and an appeal for funds was launched.
This 1860 building, by architect James Knowles Snr, is studded with many portrait busts of which we believe only these 14 are representat...
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