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Liverpool
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Bold Street / Ranelagh Street (L1)
(The Lyceum)

Geography, Arts and Commerce

Description

The Lyceum, a Neoclassical building, was constructed in 1802 as a news-room and England's first subscription library (1758-1942) and later became a gentleman's club.
The facade facing Church Street has three relief panels of Greek characters, representing Geography, Apollo and Commerce (Lancaster Gazette, 31 July 1802.

Liverpool - Geography, Arts and Commerce
Geography - also speculated to be Erathosthenes (Wikipedia) or Navigation (Cavanagh).

Arts, personified as Apollo, the god of art, music and poetry.
Commerce, personified as Mercurius / Hermes.

Sculptor

Frederick A. Legé (1779 - 1837), English sculptor from Liverpool.

Sources & Information

Wikipedia, The Lyceum, Liverpool.
Terry Cavanagh, Public Sculpture of Liverpool. Liverpool University Press, 1997, pp. 4.
Cumberland Pacquet, and Ware's Whitehaven Advertiser, 20 July 1802, and Lancaster Gazette, 31 July 1802 (British Newspaper Archive).

Locatie (N 53°24'16" - W 2°58'50") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: gbnw102; Photograph: 19 June 2023
Of each statue we made photos from various angles and also detail photos of the various texts.
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