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Bristol Zoo: 1971: David Wynne: Sculpture: Bronze on steel piller with a concrete base: 3.5m wide [2] Girl and Kid Bristol Zoo: c.1975: Roy Clapp Statue: Alabaster: 1m high [2] Ying and Yang Bristol Zoo: 2001: Julian P Warren Sculpture of 2 stag beetles: Black painted metal: 3.3m long [2] Wendy the elephant Bristol Zoo
Samuel J. Loxton (born 1857 in Bristol; died 5 February 1922) [1] was an English illustrator and artist who worked primarily in Bristol and the west of England for regional newspapers. He began his career as a draughtsman for the Ordnance Survey Department but from c.1890 he contributed black and white drawings to the Bristol Observer , The ...
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Bristol Museum & Art Gallery run a programme of free and paid events throughout the year that include multi week exhibitions, workshops and drop in gallery curator talks. The biggest annual event is the weekend celebration for Chinese New Year during February which has dancing dragon and lion performances, martial arts, traditional Chinese ...
The city eventually ejected the Society, making the library free to the public from 1856. In 1876 after a refurbishment it was renamed as the Central Library. [4] In 1899 Vincent Stuckey Lean left a bequest of £50,000 for a new library building. As a result, in 1906 the library was moved to the newly built Bristol Central Library on College Green.
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The drawings are now held in the British Library, and cover most of England south of a line between Liverpool and Kingston upon Hull, as well as parts of Wales. The drawings provide a unique record of landscapes and land use in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, of the expanding canal and turnpike road networks, and of place-names.
Sealing the Tomb is a great altarpiece triptych by William Hogarth in the English city of Bristol. It was commissioned for St Mary Redcliffe in 1755. In the 19th century attempts were made to sell it, but it was given to the Bristol Fine Art Academy, which became the Royal West of England Academy. Its size made it difficult to display and it ...