British Medical Association (now Zimbabwe House), 429 Strand, London: the defaced 'Ages of Man' statues by Jacob Epstein framing the second floor windows Architect/Designer Adams, Harry Percy (1865-1930) Epstein, Sir Jacob (1880-1959) Holden, Charles Henry (1875-1960) Artist/Photographer Breach, Nicholas (1930-2015) Country UK: England City London Subject Date 1908 Image Date 1968 View Exterior Style Edwardian Medium Photoprint Library Reference 25028 (NB 2974-81) Orientation Landscape Colour Info Black and white Credit Nicholas Breach / RIBA Collections Subject Societies' buildings ; Statues ; Windows ; Embassies, consular buildings ; Sculpture ; Stone
NOTES: Built as the headquarters for the British Medical Association, this building served as the High Commission of Southern Rhodesia from 1923 until the Rhodesian Unilateral Declaration of Independence on November 11, 1965. It remained a representative office until the colony gained independence as Zimbabwe in 1980 and has since been known as Zimbabwe House. The 'Ages of Man' sculptures by Jacob Epstein, the sculptor's first major commission in England, were carved in situ. The mutilation of the statues occurred in the 1930s when possibly dangerous projecting features were hacked-off after pieces fell from one of the statues.
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