Peggy Temple tree
E9, Victoria Park, rose garden area
In memory of Peggy Temple, 1924 - 1990, founder member of Victoria Park Society.
2 subjects commemorated
Israel Renson
E9, Victoria Park
Donated in memory, Israel Renson, 1906 - 1986, founder member of Victoria Park Society.
2 subjects commemorated
Virtues - Lucidity
WC2, Trafalgar Square, National Gallery - Staircase Hall - North Vestibule
Bertrand Russell is reaching out to remove a blindfold from a naked woman who holds a mirror. She is the symbolic figure of Truth and he ...
1 subject commemorated
Virtues - Rest
WC2, Trafalgar Square, National Gallery - Staircase Hall - North Vestibule
A sign outside a public house. The NG's leaflet confidently says the pub is in Kent. We found a pub of this name in Wheddon Cross, Minehe...
Virtues - Compromise
WC2, Trafalgar Square, National Gallery - Staircase Hall - North Vestibule
We initially thought this odd scene may refer to one of Loretta Young's films, but no. The image contains a number of puzzling elements ...
1 subject commemorated
Virtues - Anrep
WC2, Trafalgar Square, National Gallery - Staircase Hall - North Vestibule
Carved at the top of the gravestone is a portrait of Anrep himself. The image below, on the left shows a few mosaic tesserae and the spec...
1 subject commemorated,
3 creators
Virtues - Defiance
WC2, Trafalgar Square, National Gallery - Staircase Hall - North Vestibule
In front of the white cliffs of Dover Winston Churchill, in his signature siren suit, makes a fist with his right hand and a V-sign with ...
1 subject commemorated
Virtues - Compassion
WC2, Trafalgar Square, National Gallery - Staircase Hall - North Vestibule
Anna Akhmatova, looking towards Anrep's gravestone (in another panel) and surrounded by the horrors of war, is visited by an angel. To th...
1 subject commemorated
Virtues - Leisure
WC2, Trafalgar Square, National Gallery - Staircase Hall - North Vestibule
Oddly, in this water-side scene, T. S. Eliot is not sitting in the elaborate classically-styled seat; rather he seems to be crouched behi...
1 subject commemorated
Virtues - Open Mind
WC2, Trafalgar Square, National Gallery - Staircase Hall - North Vestibule
Earl Jowitt, in his Lord Chancellor robes and wig, raises both hands, palms towards us. Behind him stand two carved figures: that on the ...
1 subject commemorated
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