Muses - Urania
WC2, Trafalgar Square, National Gallery - Staircase Hall - Half-way Landing
Maria Volkova as Urania the muse of astronomy.
Maria Volkova as Urania the muse of astronomy.
Lady Lesley Jowitt as Thalia the muse of comedy and bucolic poetry.
Virginia Woolf as Clio the muse of history, holding a quill pen.
Clive Bell as Bacchus, god of wine, parties, the theatre and general fun/mayhem. That long stick he's holding is a thyrsus - symbol of of...
Lydia Lopokova, as Terpsichore the muse of dance and choral poetry, leaves a lyre resting against her side to hold a squirrel aloft.
Christabel, Lady Aberconway as Euterpe the muse of music.
Osbert Sitwell as Apollo, god of music, dance and lots more, plays a pipe to awaken the muses.
Londonist have an old photo of these balusters showing the purpose of the horizontal grove in their sides. When first installed here the ...
These are the gardens around Myddelton House. In 1968 the house and the gardens were sold to the Lee Valley Regional Park Authority, who ...
This stone comes from the porch of the south wing of nearby Pitzhanger Manor. The 1770 wing was designed by George Dance but the porch, w...