- Title:
- West Entrance Sculptures
- Object name(s):
- Sculpture; British
- Brief description:
- The National Gallery’s West Entrance is surmounted with a figure of Victory, framed by another full-length, draped female figure in each of the niches to left and right. As this pair of flanking figures do not carry any attributes, it is hard to identify who they represent. All three statues are the work of the British neoclassical sculptor Edward Hodges Baily. They were not made for the National Gallery, but were commissioned by King George IV for other structural projects in central London - in the case of the Victory figure, for the Marble Arch, a monument intended to celebrate Britain’s defeat of the French in the Napoleonic Wars.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Current location:
- Not on display
- Material:
- Portland stone
- Object name:
- Sculpture; British
- Object production date:
- 1826-32
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1826
- Date - latest:
- 1832
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1825-49
- Object production person:
- Edward Hodges Baily
- Person's birth date:
- 1788-03-10
- Person's death date:
- 1867-05-22
- Object production place:
- 8 Percy Street
- Other number:
- GROUP160
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0UY4-0008-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- H210-H212
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- H210-H212
- Other number type:
- Display Number
- Other number:
- group2160
- Other number type:
- sort number
- Responsible department/section:
- Contextual Collection
- Right note:
- To encourage the use and reuse of the National Gallery's collection data, they are released under the following dedications and licences: Structured data (as opposed to narrative texts) are released under a Creative Commons Zero dedication (CC0): https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Descriptions, notes and all other narrative text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 licence (CC BY-NC-ND): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/ab29b202-74c6-3b52-a0a8-b5e5ae520c00
Use licence for this record: CC BY
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/ab29b202-74c6-3b52-a0a8-b5e5ae520c00, National Gallery, CC BY
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