Charles James Napier

Charles James Napier

George Gamon Adams

1856

Bronze

Trafalgar Square, London

"The statue of Sir Charles Napier is so bad that it ought to be put anywhere but here in the prominent position where it is placed trial" (quoted by Read, p. 11).

Photograph by George P. Landow, December 1999

References

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


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