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A replica of the figure sited at Newdegate Street: the seated figure of George Eliot 'Mary Evans' on a wall with a book by her hand, mounted on a square, brick-built plinth.

Title

George Eliot 'Mary Ann Evans' (1819–1880)

Date

1996

Medium

bronze & granite

Accession number

CV10_DB_S004

Acquisition method

donated by the artist

Work type

Statue

Owner

Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council

Custodian

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust

Work status

extant

Signature/marks description

rear: John Letts Sc

Inscription description

plaque: GEORGE ELIOT / HOSPITAL / NHS TRUST / "Many of us…...would say that the kindest man we have / ever known has been a medical man…" / Middlemarch / George Eliot 1818-1880 / Born at Arbury, Nuneaton / Statue donated by John Letts, Sculptor 1996 / Garden is a gift from members of the George Eliot / Fellowship in Britain, Europe, America and Japan. / June 2000

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