Statues - Hither & Thither

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Nelson Mandela

Mvezo, Cape Province 1918 - Johannesburg 2013
Anti-apartheid activist, President of South Africa
(Wikipedia)

Ian Walters
2007

Description

Bronze statue.

Inscription(s)

NELSON MANDELA

Annotation

Unveiled 29 August 2007 by Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Westminster Council had earlier refused permission for placing the statue in Trafalgar Square adjacent to South Africa House. On a visit to London in 1961, Mandela had joked that one day his statue would replace that of Jan Smuts; they now both have statues in Parliament Square.

Parliament Square

On Parliament Square, Westminster, are 10 statues of British and some foreign politicians.

Abraham Lincoln (1920)
George Canning (1832, here 1949)
Nelson Mandela (2007)
Sir Robert Peel (1877)
Benjamin Disraeli (1883)
Edward Smith-Stanley (1874)
Henry John Temple - Lord Palmerston (1876)
Jan Smuts (1956)
David Lloyd George (2007)
Sir Winston Churchill (1973)

Click here for a interactive map with the locations of the sculptures.

Sculptor

Ian Homer Walters (Solihull 1930 - ... 2006), English sculptor (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Wikipedia, List of public art in the City of Westminster.
Wikipedia, Statue of Nelson Mandela, Parliament Square.
Wikipedia, Parliament Square.
Andrew Kershman, London's Monuments (London: Metro Publ., 2013), p. 62.
Peter Matthews, London's Statues and Monuments (Botley: Shire, 2012), p. 33-34.

Locatie (N 51°30'1" - W 0°7'38") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: gblo041; Photograph: 3 August 2014
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