Marble Arch Sculpture

In 1851 on the initiative of architect and urban planner decimus.

Marble arch sculpture.

Still water is a 2011 outdoor bronze sculpture of a horse s head by nic fiddian green located at marble arch in london united kingdom. The 33 feet 10 m piece was commissioned to replace an earlier and similar but slightly smaller work horse at water xv this was installed at the same site temporarily but then moved to daylesford gloucestershire the home of sir anthony and lady carole. It stood near the site of what is today the three bayed central projection of the palace containing the well known balcony. For me this made the visit to marble arch worthwhile.

Describes sculpture on the marble arch at the end of oxford street london on pages on mostly victorian and edwardian art marble arch sculpture marble arch a grand triumphal arch in imperial roman style which has lost much of its grandeur due to the traffic sweeping by was originally designed as an entrance to buckingham palace in the 1820s. Twenty elephant calf sculptures are modeled after real orphaned baby elephants currently in the care of sheldrick wildlife trust. Read on for a detailed tour of all its features. This was the first time marble had been used in this way on any british building.

The whole arch is clad in ravaccione a grey white type of carrara marble from italy. Twenty one bronze life size elephants were unveiled yesterday in london s marble arch by celebrities including stanley johnson and peter egan joined by the sheldrick wildlife trust and 16 local school children to highlight the plight of elephants which face extinction by 2040. The calf sculptures are modelled on orphaned baby elephants in the care of sheldrick wildlife trust highlighting the issue of the wider tragedy when one mother elephant is killed by poachers for her tusks which here are highlighted in blue.