Pediment

Designed by Frederick William Pomeroy
Carved by Frederick William Pomeroy
Carved by James Edgar Winter

Object class: architecture, sculpture

Object type: pedimental figure group

Material: stone

Technique: carved

Description: Figure group of Hibernia, Minerva and symbolic figures of Labour, Industry, Liberty and Commerce at Belfast City Hall. For image see http://www.victorianweb.org/sculpture/pomeroy/4.html

Notes: Total cost for building City Hall £360,000: marble work, £21,681; carving and sculpture, £9,817 (Buildings of Belfast 1700-1914, p. 56)

Citing this record

'Pediment', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/object.php?id=msib3_1265140306, accessed 21 Jan 2021]