'Wild Thing' London public sculpture trail: Locations
Jacob Epstein: Statues on the Strand, 1908
Epstein's now savagely mutilated 18 figures on the two facades of the British Medical Association Headquarters, now called Zimbabwe House.
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05:08 mins (2.4 MB)
Jacob Epstein: Rima, 1923-5
Epstein's Hyde Park Memorial to W.H.Hudson, who wrote a book called Green Mansions with a nature-spirit heroine called Rima.
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04:50 mins (2.2 MB)
Jacob Epstein: Madonna and Child, 1950-2
Cast in lead for the Convent of the Holy Child of Jesus in Cavendish Square, this Epstein work is well situated on a bridge linking two older buildings.
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02:37 mins (1.2 MB)
Jacob Epstein: Day and Night, 1928-9 and and Eric Gill: Wind (three works)
Epstein's figures are carved on either side of the London Underground Electric Railways Headquarters, 55 Broadway. Gill's can be seen higher up the building and represent the winds.
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06:32 mins (3.0 MB)
Jacob Epstein: Field Marshal Smuts, 1956
Epstein's figure of Jan Christiaan Smuts, a prominent South African military leader and statesman, stands in Parliament Square.
Jacob Epstein: TUC War Memorial, 1956-7
Carved in Roman stone for Congress House at 4 Great Russell Street, this was Epstein's last great carving.
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04:07 mins (1.9 MB)
Eric Gill: Stations of the Cross, 1914-18
Gill's 14 Stations of the Cross are carved in low relief inside Westminster Cathedral.
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03:38 mins (1.7 MB)
Eric Gill: Prospero and Ariel, 1932
Gill's sculptures, featuring characters from Shakespeare's play The Tempest, adorn the exterior and interior of the BBC's Broadcasting House.
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03:25 mins (1.6 MB)
Eric Gill: Crucifixion, 1933
Gill's sculpture features on the exterior of St. Thomas Church, Hanwell, and can be seen in Google Street View.
Eric Gill: Drama, Music, Dance, Brotherhood and Sport, 1936
These low-relief panels feature on the facade of the former New People's Palace theatre (now part of Queen Mary, University of London)