A new national database from ArtUK catalogues some of the quirkier statues from around the country.
There are more statues of Queen Victoria than anyone else - this one at Windsor Castle is one of 175 to honour herThe charity ArtUK has created a photographic database of 13,500 works of public art.
Queen Victoria is the most honoured person with 175 works dedicated to her. The data also shows 77% of people depicted are male, 17% female and the rest a mixture of the sexes.Here are a few of the statues with a story to tell.One statue of Queen Victoria in Salford shows her as a younger woman The most honoured person in Britain is a woman - Queen Victoria has 175 statues and memorials erected in her name.It was erected after the Queen's visit to Manchester and Salford in 1851. Most of the other Queen Victorias were installed in the 1890s and 1900s.There are more than 100 generals and more than 50 admirals. Lord Nelson has 12 statues, Gladstone six.
"There's just been a thrust over the last couple of years to show what women have done," she says. "I wanted to show she was a woman of purpose. I wanted her striding off. She was quite determined." One problem in capturing a likeness is how often women were overlooked in their time and did not receive official portraits. There is just one painting and one pastel of Mary Anning to work from.In March 1910, Battersea Council removed the statue under cover of darkness, after which it was reportedly melted down despite a 20,000-strong petition in its favour. A new statue of the brown dog, commissioned by anti-vivisection groups, was erected in Battersea Park in 1985.
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