Download Alfred Gilbert Statue Piccadilly Circus Pictures. Like other works by alfred gilbert, the figure in a rather art nouveau idiom, sensitively modelled and with a nobility of face. The shaftesbury memorial fountain, popularly but incorrectly known as eros, is a fountain surmounted by a winged statue of anteros, located at the southeastern side of piccadilly circus in london.

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The basin was not as large as alfred gilbert's designs, resulting in passers by being gilbert was so furious at his altered and now rather embarrassingly impractical design that he refused to turn up for the unveiling. And why is it famous around the world? The famous statue of eros in piccadilly circus is one of the symbols of london.

It was built in 1819 to connect regent street with piccadilly.

It was removed for safekeeping during the two world wars and during the rebuilding of the piccadilly subway station in the 1920s. Note on the famous statue of eros, piccadilly circus, london, in context of pages on victorian sculpture. Piccadilly circus is a dynamic and picturesque place with a happy and lively cosmopolitan atmosphere. The sculptor wrote of 'blindfolded love sending forth indiscriminately, yet with purpose, his missile of.