Allegory of Manufacture
Victoria Memorial by Thomas Brock, 1911
The Mall, City of Westminster
London, September 2001
“At the four corners of the monument are massive bronze figures with lions, representing Peace (a female figure holding an olive branch), Progress (a nude youth holding a flaming torch), Agriculture (a woman in peasant dress with a sickle and a sheaf of corn) and Manufacture (a blacksmith in modern costume with a hammer and a scroll).” (Victoria Memorial, Wikipedia)
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