Category Archives: Sculpture
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4 February 2025
Erin, Triton and The Great Industrial Exhibition
John Bell's figure of Erin, made by J M Blashfield was made for The Great Industrial Exhibition in Dublin.
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28 February 2024
The Philosophers
A LASSCO discovery: The Philosophers, carved marble reliefs c.1710, by Francesco Cabianca (1666-1737)
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3 May 2018
Peter Pan lands at LASSCO
One night, 106 years ago, a small cluster of men with a lifting derrick, ropes, block & tackle and muscle-power would have been seen in a wooded glade on the western bank of The Serpentine in Kensington Gardens. After darkness had fallen, at some point, their work completed, they would have slipped away; what they...
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25 May 2016
Pigeon Post
Pigeon Post: News from LASSCO Three Pigeons The final room of the recent Historic England Exhibition “Out There – Post War Public Art” at Somerset House ended with a mournful list of notable public sculpture that has, to date, been “Sold, Lost, Destroyed or Stolen”. This was a rather down-beat end to a show that had...
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7 April 2016
For the Record
Charles Wheeler is a sculptor who we are rather fond of – an article “Missing in Action: Charles Wheeler’s Post War Architectural Sculpture”, concerning his work was recently posted on “3rd Dimension”, the on-line Magazine and Newsletter for the Public Monuments and Sculpture Association (PMSA) and can be viewed in its original location here. We were delighted...