Other

Virtues - Wonder

Erection date: 25/11/1952

Augustus John as Neptune offers Alice in Wonderland gifts from the sea on his trident. To the left is a ship with a mermaid figurehead, holding hands with Alice, inviting her on new adventures.

The V&A hold another mosaic by Anrep, made in 1919, showing Augustus John and his family, but there is no image online.

 

Site: National Gallery - Anrep mosaics - Virtues (15 memorials)

WC2, Trafalgar Square, National Gallery - Staircase Hall - North Vestibule

See National Gallery - Anrep mosaics - Muses for general information about these mosaic floors.

The 1954 'Modern Virtues' is in a style very different from that of the earlier 'Muses' floor, with scenes depicted inside frames which carry each scene’s title. These panels appear to be laid on a mosaic floor with a geometric pattern, on which autumnal leaves have fallen – trompe l'oeil in mosaic.

This 'Modern Virtues' floor was gifted (which we take to mean funded) by Maud Russell and opened on 25 November 1952.

To avoid database clutter we have put the Creator links on just the page for the Anrep panel.

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them

This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Virtues - Wonder

Subjects commemorated i

Augustus John

Augustus Edwin John was born Tenby, Pembrokeshire. Painter, draughtsman and e...

Read More

This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Virtues - Wonder

Also at this site i

Virtues - Anrep

Virtues - Anrep

Carved at the top of the gravestone is a portrait of Anrep himself. The image...

Read More

Virtues - Compassion

Virtues - Compassion

Anna Akhmatova, looking towards Anrep's gravestone (in another panel) and sur...

Read More

Virtues - Compromise

Virtues - Compromise

We initially thought this odd scene may refer to one of Loretta Young's films...

Read More

Virtues - Curiosity

Virtues - Curiosity

Lord Rutherford wears a coronet - he had been raised to the peerage in 1931. ...

Read More

Virtues - Defiance

Virtues - Defiance

In front of the white cliffs of Dover Winston Churchill, in his signature sir...

Read More

Nearby Memorials

Muses - Urania

Muses - Urania

WC2, Trafalgar Square, National Gallery - Staircase Hall - Half-way Landing

Maria Volkova as Urania the muse of astronomy.

1 subject commemorated
George & Debbie Bunting

George & Debbie Bunting

N1, New River Walk

In memory of George & Debbie Bunting, Islington Art Circle 1946 - 2000.

2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Reinhard Ziegler

Reinhard Ziegler

N21, Highfield Road, Orange Tree pub

In the back garden of the pub so we've no idea how we spotted it. But once we had we couldn't not collect it - very unusual.

1 subject commemorated
Holy Trinity Stroud Green - information board

Holy Trinity Stroud Green - information board

N4, Granville Road, Holy Trinity church garden

This Peace Garden, opened on 27 March 2011, commemorates the 1944 V1 bomb, the people who died, the church that was destroyed and the sub...

Civilian war dead | WW2
19 subjects commemorated, 2 creators
Silver Jubilee bench

Silver Jubilee bench

EN1, Silver Street

We don't normally collect benches but large, unusual plaques like this one are irresistible.

2 subjects commemorated