File:2012 - The Landed ( Dockers ) Bronze sculpture , Royal Victoria Dock, London, United Kingdom ( Ank Kumar ) 03.jpg
_Bronze_sculpture_,_Royal_Victoria_Dock,_London,_United_Kingdom_(_Ank_Kumar_)_03.jpg){kind=small}
Original file (2,583 × 2,056 pixels, file size: 981 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
 | This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its description page there is shown below. Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. You can help. |
Summary
| Description |
English: 'Landed' / 'Dockers' is a bronze sculpture in the redeveloped Royal Docks, mounted close to the main entrance of the enormous ExCeL Exhibition Centre.
it depicts the dockworkers who used to earn there living in this area until the dock closures in the early 1980s. It was sculpted by the famous sculptor Leslie Godschall Johnson( Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors). With 9ft height, it is one of the largest sculptures in London. They were made by London's Bronze Age Foundry and unveiled in 2009. The three figures depicted in the statue are: John Ringwood, an ex Seaman who later worker in the Docks; Patrick Holland from Custom House, who worked as a Stevedore in the Docks for 20 years and Mark Tibbs, who comes from a Boxing family in Canning Town. http://www.lesjohnsonsculptor.com/public-commissions https://sculptors.org.uk/artists/les-johnson https://www.bronzeage.co.uk/ |
| Date | |
| Source | Own work |
| Author | Ank Kumar |
Licensing
- You are free:
- to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
- to remix – to adapt the work
- Under the following conditions:
- attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
- share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
| Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| current | 17:13, 27 December 2023 | | 2,583 × 2,056 (981 KB) | Ank gsx | Uploaded own work with UploadWizard |
_Bronze_sculpture_,_Royal_Victoria_Dock,_London,_United_Kingdom_(_Ank_Kumar_)_03.jpg){kind=link}