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A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft
A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft
A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft
A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft
A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft
A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft
A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft
A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft
A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft
A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft
A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft
A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft
A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft
A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft
A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft
A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft
A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft

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Born in London in 1759, Wollstonecraft was an eighteenth-century writer and radical who promoted the rights of women. The sculpture depicts a female figure emerging from the top of an amorphous base. The sculpture is sited near to the Newington Green Unitarian Church, where Wollstonecraft attended.
Title

A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft

Date

2020

Medium

silvered bronze & polished granite

Accession number

N16_CRH_S148

Acquisition method

commissioned by the Mary on the Green Campaign

Work type

Sculpture

Owner

The Mary on the Green Campaign

Custodian

The Mary on the Green Campaign

Work status

extant

Unveiling date

10th November 2020

Access

at all times

Signature/marks description

side of the plinth: HAMBLING 2020

Inscription description

front of the plinth: for / MARY / WOLLSTONECRAFT / 1759-1797; side of the plinth: "I do not wish / women / to have power / over men; / but / over / themselves"; back of the plinth: MARY ON THE GREEN CAMPAIGN / SUSIE BURROUGHS & RICHARD RIESER / SHEILA MILLWARD / PEOPLE'S POSTCODE TRUST / WOMEN'S INITIATIVE NETWORK

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Located at

Newington Green, Hackney

N16 9PR