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Image scanned in by Jaqueline Powell. Thanks, Jackie.
"Charity," one of
four panels sculpted by the Victorian artist Ellen Mary Rope (1855-1934)
for the Chicago World Exhibition in 1893 (Faith, Hope and Heavenly
Wisdom were the other panels.) They were later placed in the chapel in
the basement of Chenies Street Chambers, through the intervention of Octavia
Hill. Two of the four panels remain, the other two were taken out and placed
on a skip in the 1970's. The tips of two of the angels'
wings are still visible in the architrave above the door of Flat 3, where
Camden Council put up the walls for the flats through the panels during the
rebuilding of the building in 1947. They are obscured even more by being
sprayed (as were the Victorian Wall tiles) with the purple porta-fleck paint
used for the communal walls in 1990.
USEFUL LINKS:
Suffolk Churches, Ellen Mary Rope, and other artistic members of her
family:
http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/blaxhall.htm (stained glass window)
http://www.suffolkchurches.plus.com/leiston.html (plaster relief
panel to the Nativity)
Ellen Mary Rope - family Tree
http://www.arthur.rope.clara.net/tree.htm
exhibition catalogue: Ellen Mary Rope: the Poet Sculptor
http://www.blairman.co.uk/publications.html
dissertation on women sculptors (including Ellen Mary Rope)
British Nineteenth Century Female Sculptors, and the Impact of Available
Artistic Opportunities
Chin Man Li, Department of Fine Art, University of Leeds, 1999
http://chinnyli.tripod.com/dissertation/b19cw-0.htm
'Hope'