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Commerce Statue
A winged female statue outside one of the more posh Sydney motels.
One of two statues at the front entrance of St. Mary's Cathedral in Sydney, Australia.
One of two statues at the front entrance of St. Mary's Cathedral in Sydney, Australia.
Statue in St. Mary's Cathedral,
Boy Extracting Thorn
This replica of the Choragic Monument of Lysicreates was executed by Walter McGill, sculptor, for Sir James Martin, premier of New South Wales, and was erected in the grounds of his residence at Macleay Street, Potts Point in the year 1870. 

When that site was acquired by the Commonwealth Government in connection with the construction of the Graving Dock, the monument was made available to the state and was removed to the Botanic Gardens at the request of the Minister of Education, the Hon. Clive R. Evatt K.C., M.L.A.

A ceremony to commemorate the re-erection of the monument on this site was performed by the Hon. W.J.McKell M.L.A., Premier and Treasurer. November 16, 1943.

The original monument which had a square base 12 feet high was erected in Athens about the year 330 B.C. to receive the victors tripod won by Lysicrates at the Festival of Bacchus in that year.
This was in the middle of the section of the garden that was mostly flowering plants.
Lewis Wolfe Levy Drinking Fourtain (Back)
Commerce Statue
Commerce Statue
Commerce Statue
See photo in original gallery.