• Roger Fenton, photograph of Mary Thornycroft with statue of Princess Helena as Peace, c.1855. Image courtesy Leeds Museums and Galleries (Archive of Sculptors’ Papers, Henry Moore Institute).

    Roger Fenton, photograph of Mary Thornycroft with statue of Princess Helena as Peace, c.1855. Image courtesy Leeds Museums and Galleries (Archive of Sculptors’ Papers, Henry Moore Institute).

Exhibition

Sculpting Royalty: Hew Locke and Mary Thornycroft

12 Jul 2024 – 3 Nov 2024

Regular hours

Monday
Closed
Tuesday
10:00 – 18:00
Wednesday
10:00 – 18:00
Thursday
10:00 – 18:00
Friday
10:00 – 18:00
Saturday
10:00 – 18:00
Sunday
10:00 – 18:00

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Henry Moore Institute

Leeds, United Kingdom

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What happens when the work of a Victorian royal sculptor quite literally clashes with a twenty-first century reframing of monarchy and memorialisation?

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This display takes as its starting point the recent acquisition of Hew Locke’s Souvenir 10 (Princess Alexandra) 2019 for the Leeds collection, a reworked Parian ware bust of Princess Alexandra of Denmark produced after a marble original by Mary Thornycroft.

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