This bust is a 20th-century replica after G. B. Comolli, 19th century.
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:
Thomas Grenville
Bibliophile and politician. He was commissioned briefly in the Coldstream Gua...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Thomas Grenville
Italian sculptor. From Wikipedia: After 1816 till about 1820, he moved to Lon...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Thomas Grenville
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.
This building, 1896, designed by Ewan Christian, has 18 busts contained in medallions around the top of the facades. Starting at the east...
We double checked the "1881" - that is what is carved, it's not our mistype. She was born September 1880.
This 1860 building, by architect James Knowles Snr, is studded with many portrait busts of which we believe only these 14 are representat...
Unveiled by Bermondsey Mayor Geoghegan, Chairman of the statue committee. The committee secretary was Griggs. The list of Creators includ...
This bust is a 20th-century replica after Anne Seymour Damer, 1814.
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