A Gallery of Victorian Sculpture: Female Nudes

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Standing Figures

Left to right. All by Sir Francis Derwent Wood: (a) Nude with Peacock and (b) Nude female figure with grapes, (c) Nude Torso (d) Nude (on Chelsea Embankment) (e) La Moqeuse [sic]

Left to right. (a) Andrea Lucchesi's Destiny. (b) Andrea Lucchesi's The Flight of Fancy. (c) Albert Toft's Fate Led. (d) Frederick William Pomeroy's The Wood Nymph. (e) Frederick William Pomeroy's Pensée. (f) Edward Onslow Ford's Echo

Left to right. (a and b) Two by Sir Edgar Bertram Mackennal, both entitled The Dancer. ( (c) Albert Toft's The Bather. (d) Charles Leonard Hartwell's The Rising Tide

Left: Percy Portsmouth's The Necklace . Middle left: Hamo Thornycroft's The Kiss . Middle: Mary Pownall’s Maiden Meditation. Middle right: Horace Montford's A Song for Demeter. Right: Frank Ransom’s A Broken Idol.

Literary and Religious Figures

Left to right. (a and b) Sir Thomas Brock's Eve. (c) Thomas Woolner's Lady Godiva. (d) Sir Francis Derwent Wood's's Atalanta. (e) Sir Edgar Bertram Mackennal.'s Salome.