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Two in bronze, two in cotton

Two bronze women sit on a rock outside the National Theatre. Two people stand in front of them reading an inscription on the ground. The sculpture is Frank Dobson's London Pride, originally made from the 1951 Festival of Britain, made from plaster. It was only cast in bronze decades later and put back in the...

Donncha O Caoimh
Sep 10, 20261 min read

wo bronze women sit on a rock outside the National Theatre. Two people stand in front of them reading an inscription on the ground.

The sculpture is Frank Dobson’s London Pride, originally made from the 1951 Festival of Britain, made from plaster. It was only cast in bronze decades later and put back in the same stretch of the riverbank outside the National Theatre. Read more about the sculpture here.

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