Sir Rowland Hill

Created by Peter Hollins

Date: 1868
Usually date of exhibition rather than production

Object class: architecture, sculpture

Object type: statue

Material: stone - marble

Technique: carved

Notes: The exhibition catalogue decribes Sir Rowland Hill as 'Sir Rowland Hill, K.C.B., D.C.L. (Oxon.), F.R.S.'. The sculpture is described in the catalogue as being 'erected in Birmingham by public subscription, in recognition of his eminent services in connection with the postal system.'

Citing this record

'Sir Rowland Hill', 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=msib4_1202310638, accessed 07 Jun 2023]