![]() Not have particularly distinguished between the two, with China and Japan having different and separate allegorical sculpture. The elephant may be used as symbol of India rather than Asia as a whole, though many Victorians would Here is another group in relief, on the building housing the Japanese embassy, in Piccadilly,Īgain based on an elephant and a comely and exotic semi-clad girl.īut here the elephant is as exotic as the female figure, with a headdress with pendant bobs, and anĮxotic elephant, Japanese embassy, Piccadilly. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office Asia group. Which the Victorian viewer would have been particularly conscious of. We see the elephant's huge head, trunk and ears, with the forward tusk prominent, again reminding us of the ivory trade Panels in relief showing elephants include representations of Asia, the example springing to mind being the group on the front of the Foreign Office, Whitehall,īy the sculptor H. It is surprisingly unusual to have an elephantĮmblematic of Africa, though the importation of ivory from the continent is recognised, for example, on the Africa panel on Manchester's Free Trade Hall.Īfrica House elephant, Kingsway and girl with tusk on Manchester Free Trade Hall. Posed with the trunk coiled, and the athletic African man next to it has the tusks across his shoulders. Tusks are cut and capped, the forehead is draped in a cloth, and the ears are small, for this is of course an Indian elephant.Īpart from very small heraldic elephants, I cannot think of another free standing elephant sculpture in any of the English towns I have visited,īut we do have one rather large and solid elephant's head, high up on the front of Africa House, on Kingsway, London. Supporting the mass of the body is a problem, even more so in stone than in the flesh, so that the sculptor has his elephant reclining. ![]() The animal, but the picture above shows both front and back of the great beast so we get something of the outline. The large figures seated around it, and the one on top of it, rather obscure The Albert Memorial has a full-size elephant,Īlbeit on the small side, as part of H. The Elephant does not appear in Victorian sculpture particularly frequently. Elephant Sculpture - Bob Speel's Website Elephant Sculpture
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