Statues for the Egyptian Hall in the Mansion House: "Comus" - by J. G. Lough , 1856. Sculpture as part of a commission for '...poetic statues in marble to decorate the Mansion House of the Lord Mayor of will add materially to the architectural beauty of [George] Dance's building. The architectural requirements of the Hall rendered it necessary that the statues should be standing Egyptian , in point of sculptural decoration, surpass the most beautiful of public or private buildings existing in London'. From "Illustrated London News", 1

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Statues for the Egyptian Hall in the Mansion House: "Comus" - by J. G. Lough , 1856. Sculpture as part of a commission for '...poetic statues in marble to decorate the Mansion House of the Lord Mayor of will add materially to the architectural beauty of [George] Dance's building. The architectural requirements of the Hall rendered it necessary that the statues should be standing Egyptian , in point of sculptural decoration, surpass the most beautiful of public or private buildings existing in London'. From "Illustrated London News", 1856.

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