Peace (from left)

Peace

Sir Thomas Brock, K.C.B., R.A. 1847-1922

1911

Bronze

11 feet 6 inches high

The Victoria Memorial

Between the Mall and Buckingham Palace, London

  • Plaster sketch model (1911 Studio)
  • Rear view

    • “There are two ideal figures, semi-draped, supported” by lions British, of course: Peace, a splendidly proportioned female, carrying an olive-branch and pressing forward with a radiant look upon her face: and Progress, a nobly formed youth, laurel-crowned, and bearing a torch in his left hand as he advances with buoyant step.”

    Top photograph by George P. Landow December 1999; others by Robert Freidus 2011

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