Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery 1895
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The statues of Raphael and Michelangelo stand on the entrance steps to the Walker Art Gallery in William Brown Street. Opened in 1877 to the design of H H Vale, it was built as a single-storey Grecian-style building. The bas-relief friezes along the front of the building represent four royal visits to Liverpool. From right to left, beginning in Mill Lane, they show the embarkation of King William III and his army at Hoylake in 1690; continuing in William Brown Street are King John granting the first Charter to the burgesses of Liverpool in 1207, the visit of Queen Victoria in 1851, and the laying of the foundation stone of the Walker Art Gallery by the Duke of Edinburgh in September 1874. On the roof over the main entrance to the Gallery is an allegorical statue of Liverpool, by John Warrington Wood. The large female figure in Carrara marble is seated on a bale of cotton, crowned with a laurel wreath and holding a trident in one hand, and a ship's propeller in the other. By her side is a bronze liver bird.
An extract from Liverpool and Merseyside Photographic Memories.
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