London Belongs to Me (again) - part two

So, back to my metropolitan list. I couldn't walk through Hyde Park without going to see:

 Jacob Epstein's Rima, which he worked on in the mid-1920s and which forms the centrepiece of a memorial to the naturalist and author, W H Hudson. Hard to believe now but, at the time, hands were thrown up in horror because of the sculpture's alleged obscenity. Someone even threw paint at it. You can see what Epstein himself thought about it all here. 

In the 1990s, the dogs and I walked past Rima almost daily and I was always saddened by the fact that something so exquisite had been neglected for so long. But now it has been cleaned and restored and looks all the better for it.

The memorial was designed, appropriately, as a sanctuary . . . 

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[Teri and the cats of Furrydance]

Lovely. My sister in law is in London now and I'm going to send her the link to your blog so she can visit places she may have missed before...