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- A Surge of Power (Jen Reid), 2020
- Boer War Memorial, Bristol
- Boer War Memorial, Clifton College
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Equestrian statue of William III, Bristol The equestrian statue of William III by John Michael Rysbrack is situated at the centre of Queen's Square, which was home to many Bristol merchants and slave-traders in the eighteenth century. According to Nicola Smith, the city's merchant community and the Society of Merchant Venturers were prominent financial backers of the statue to William, with the Society contributing at least £500 to its erection. The statue was finally unveiled in 1736 amidst the peak of Bristol's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade.
- Statue of Alfred Fagon
- Statue of Charles Wesley, Bristol
- Statue of Douglas Haig, Clifton College
- Statue of Edmund Burke
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Statue of Edward Colston The almost hunched, contemplative figure represents Colston in his maturity. For a likeness, the sculptor may have turned to Jonathan Richardson’s portrait of 1702, a version of which hangs in the Council House. The reclining figure by Rysbrack on Colston’s tomb in All Saints, Corn Street, may also have been useful. The monument shows a younger, more vigorous man, although Rysbrack may well have used the same source. Cassidy’s statue depicts Colston in early eighteenth century clothes […] Three of the side reliefs show apocryphal or symbolic scenes from Colston’s life. One shows Colston distributing alms in the street; another depicts mythical seahorses and tritons pulling an anchor; the third depicts the legend […] of a dolphin plugging a leak in one of Colston’s ships. […] It was this ‘incident’ that is said to have caused Colston to adopt the dolphin as his emblem. Stylised dolphins, with writhing tails and looking more like animated catfish, are at each corner of the pedestal. The fourth panel bears an inscription and the sculptor’s name. (Merritt & Greenacre 2011: 41)
- Statue of King Edward VII, Bristol
- Statue of Queen Victoria, Bristol
- Statue of Samuel Morley