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Description: Monument to Bishop Lonsdale

TitleMonument to Bishop Lonsdale

Creator nameWatts, George Frederick

Creator nationality/cultureBritish (modern)

Creator roleSculptor

Creation date1871

Object typeSculpture

MaterialsUnknown

LocationLichfield Cathedral, Lichfield, Staffordshire, United Kingdom

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsBishops in artEffigiesSculpture, British--19th centurySculpture, Victorian

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Chapter 8: The Painter–Sculptors

Benedict Read

Victorian Sculpture

~Architectural sculpture, as may by now be apparent, had very much its own sets of conventions and contexts, and the effect of these was not unnaturally largely limited to that area of activity to which they were strictly relevant: it is, for instance, difficult to see the formal and practical criteria of architectural sculpture having any influence on the plethora...

Author

Benedict Read

PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

Related print edition pages: pp.273-286

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00267.008

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21360&redirecttoanchor=66669

Chapter subject tags:Sculpture, VictorianArt--Commissioning

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