John Stuart Mill

Thomas Woolner

1878

Bronze on stone base with decorative relief

Temple Gardens, Victoria Embankment, London

Other views

Entire monument

From the right

Close-up of figure

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Mill looks as tense and wiry in Woolner's sculpture as he was said to have been in life (see "John Stuart Mill as a Speaker in Parliament — A Contemporary View"), leaning forward with one hand on his knee, the other resting on his book (surely On Liberty). This was probably the third of the public monuments to appear on the newly-opened Thames Embankment, following Matthew Noble's sculpture of Sir James Outram in 1871 and Baron Marochetti's of Brunel in 1877 (Read 355).

Source

Read, Benedict. Victorian Sculpture. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1982.

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Last modified 20 November 2008