Leadwork Old And Ornamental And for the Most Part English
Leadwork Old And Ornamental And for the Most Part English
W R William Richard Lethaby
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It is the sun-dial formerly in Clement's Inn, which was known locally as the " Blackamoor. " It is H 2 FIG. 43. Sun-dial, Temple Gardens. SECT, xiv. ] OF LEAD STATUES 101 strongly, if simply modelled, a piece of art full of character, and we may be glad that it has been restored to us although now placed in the gardens of the Inner Temple, instead of before the " Garden House " in Clement's Inn. The negro is the full size of life and bears the stone disc of the dial on his head with one hand, t...he other being free. The dial is beauti- fully engraved and is signed on the edge of the gnomon Ben Scott in the Strand Londini Fecit. The sides have the initials of the donor, P. I. P. , and the date, 1731. Mr. Hare in his Walks in London states that it was brought from Italy late in the seventeenth century by Holies Lord Clare, whose name is preserved in the neighbouring Clare market. This statement is also found in Thornbury's Old and New London, and the statue is said to be bronze, which it is not, nor do the initials and date above agree with Mr.
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