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.
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.
The poetry on the base of the statue is from Donne’s 1613 poem ‘Good Friday—Riding Westward’. That on the shoulder is from 'A Letter to ...
Bloomsbury House was built in 1887 for the College of Preceptors. Designed by by F. Pinches it is Listed Grade 1. The College, now call...
When we published we wrote: "Who is this man? His identity escapes both us and Hither and Thither. A politician from the 18th century (fr...
The inscribed day of death, 8, is consistently contradicted by other sources which give 5. The inscription on the rear of the plinth is a...
The bust is in the entrance to Stephens House.
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