Statues - Hither & Thither

 

Description

Four large relief panels on the north and south side of of George's Dock building (see here). On the south side, facing the Mann Island, are 'Civil Engineering' and 'Construction' and on the north side, facing the Cunard Building across Brunswick Street, 'Architecture' and 'Decoration'. Each panel shows a central male figure with a characteristic object and two female figures holding tools.

Civil Engineering. Central figure with a disc containing a cross-section of the double tunnel. The both female figures are holding pneumatic drills.	Construction. Central figure with a model of trabeation consisting of two vertical bricks supporting one horizontal. The female figures hold a Lewis Bolt (left) and a trowel (right).
Architecture. Central figure with an Ionic capital. The female figures hold a set square (left) and a pair of compasses (right).	Decoration. The central figure holds an Assyrian capital of two back-to-back crouching bulls. The left female figures holds a sculptor's mallet and a chisel, and the right figure an artist's palette and three paintbrushes.

Sculptors

• George Capstick (Breaston, Derbyshire 1885 - Liverpool 1964), English sculptor, partner of Edmund Thompson, c. 1925 to c. 1939 (Mapping of Sculpture).
  
• Edmund C. Thompson (Belfast 1898 - 1961), English sculptor, active in Liverpool, c. 1925 to c. 1939 in partnership with George Capstick (Wikipedia – Mapping of Sculpture).

Sources & Information

• Wikipedia, George's Dock Building.
• Terry Cavanagh, Public Sculpture of Liverpool. Liverpool University Press, 1997, p. 132-134.

Tags

• Town: Liverpool
• County: Merseyside
• Subdivision: North West England
• Country: Great Britain
• Architecture
• Capstick, George
• Civil Engineering
• Construction
• Decoration
• Thompson, Edmund

Locatie (N 53°24'16" - W 2°59'38") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

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