Statues - Hither & Thither

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Middlesbrough
North Yorkshire
Yorkshire & Humberside

Corporation Road
(Town Hall, north facade)

Music, Literature, Painting and Commerce

Description

Four stone statues representing Music, Literature, Painting, and Commerce in niches under baldachins in the buttresses of the north facade of the town hall, built between 1883-1889 after designs of the architect George Gordon Hoskins of Darlington.

Commerce: woman with shipmodel.

Painting: woman with a painter's palet.

Literature: woman with a book

Music: woman with an aulos (ancient Greek wind instrument)

(The Newcastle Journal op 23 January 1889 describes them as: Art, Science, Commerce, Literature, and Music - thus five (!) statues).

According to Historic England the statues are by W. Margeston of Chelsea" (obviously Margetson is meant).

Sculptor

W. Margetson.

Sources & Information

Wikipedia, Middlesbrough Town Hall.
Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough - Wednesday 23 January 1889 (British Newspaper Archive).
Historic England, Sitesearch.

Locatie (N 54°34'33" - W 1°14'2") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: gbyh165; Photograph: 30 July 2019
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