Lands Department Building

Public Art : Statues on the Land Department Building

Sculptors : © Tommaso Sani, James White, Alexander Sherrif, Nelson Illingworth and W.P. MacIntosh.

Date : c.1891

Description : High on the ledges of the Lands Department building silently stand the 23 sandstone figures of legislators, explorers and botanists.

Location : Bridge Street, Sydney, Australia.

History of the Statues on the Land Dept Building : Italian sculptor Tommaso Sani was commissioned to  produce the statues of Allan Cunningham, W.C. Wentworth and Sir John Robertson. Ironically there are in fact 48 niches for the statues but only 23 were ever filled.

     Matthew Flinders             Hume               Sir Joseph  Banks

                      Sturt             Arthur Phillip             William Halls  

           Bass             Robert O'Hara Burke            Hovell

        Oxley                      Dr Leichhardt                Mitchell  

        Stuart              Allan Cunningham    Sir John Robertson 

         Deniehy                   Mitchell                  William J Wills

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