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A statue of William Shakespeare, by the sculptor Giovanni Fontana after an original by Peter Scheemakers, has formed the centrepiece of Leicester Square Gardens in London since 1874. Description and history
It is located in Shakespeare Place, between the Mitchell Library (part of the State Library of New South Wales) and the Royal Botanic Gardens. In 1959 the statue was repositioned to make way for the Cahill Expressway. Though initiated in 1889, the project to create a Shakespeare statue in Ballarat was not completed until 1960. Financial ...
William Shakespeare is an outdoor bronze sculpture of William Shakespeare by John Quincy Adams Ward, located in Central Park in Manhattan, New York. [1] The statue was created in 1870 and unveiled in Central Park in 1872. [ 2 ]
Statue of William Shakespeare may refer to the following monuments to William Shakespeare: Statue of William Shakespeare, Leicester Square , London, by Giovanni Fontana, 1874 Statue of William Shakespeare (Roubiliac) , in the British Library, London, by Louis-François Roubiliac, 1757
Peter Scheemakers or Pieter Scheemaeckers II or the Younger (10 January 1691 – 12 September 1781) [1] was a Flemish sculptor who worked for most of his life in London. His public and church sculptures in a classicist style had an important influence on the development of modern sculpture in England.
A 42.2 cm (16.6 in)–high terracotta maquette (a preliminary sketch model) of the whole statue dated to 1757 was bought by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1867. The Folger Shakespeare Library holds a second 22 in (56 cm) terracotta maquette dated to 1757, and also an 18th-century marble bust of Shakespeare after Roubiliac.
A statue of William Shakespeare, sometimes called the William Shakespeare Monument, is installed in Chicago's Lincoln Park, in the U.S. state of Illinois. The work by William Ordway Partridge was created in 1893 and installed in 1894.
Another notable event from the second day of the Jubilee was a speech by Garrick thanking the Shakespeare Ladies Club for making Shakespeare popular again and for their contribution to the memorial statue of Shakespeare in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.