The Alliance of Sculpture and Architecture

Description

The relief sculpture adorning the Institute of Chartered Accountants Building in London represents one of the most important commissions uniting sculpture and architecture to have been realised in Victorian Britain.

The history of this exceptional achievement, a collaboration between sculptor Hamo Thornycroft and the architect John Belcher, can be carefully charted from the surviving drawings, correspondence and other archival material, much of which is held in the extensive Thornycroft archive at the Institute.

Foreword
Dr Terry Friedman (Principal Keeper, Leeds City Art gallery and The Henry Moore Centre for the Study of Sculpture)

Belcher's Palazzo: The Chartered Accountants' Hall
Derek Linstrum

The Institute of Chartered Accountants in 1893
Photographs by Charles Latham

The Representation of Works in Victorian Sculpture
Benedict Read

Hamo Thornycroft and his Models
Helen Upton

The Sculpture Programme: A Catalogue Raisonné of Drawings
Terry Friedman, Daru Rooke and Helen Upton

The Statue of Justice

The Statue of Queen Victoria

The Contribution of Harry Bates

Principal Events in the Designing and Making of ICA Sculptures