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Bill Woodrow: English: Sitting on History.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Bill Woodrow  (1948–)  wikidata:Q476192
 
Alternative names
William Robert Woodrow; William Woodrow; William Robert "Bill" Woodrow
Description British sculptor and painter
Date of birth 1 November 1948 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth Oxfordshire
Work period 1972 Edit this at Wikidata–2010 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
United Kingdom Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q476192
Title
English: Sitting on History.
Description
English: The sculpture Sitting on History (1995) by Bill Woodrow, located in the Entrance Hall of the British Library in London, England, UK. The work, with its ball and chain, refers to the book as the captor of information from which we cannot escape.

(The bust at the top left of the photograph is of Colin St John Wilson by Celia Scott (1998), which was a gift from The American Trust for the British Library.)
Date 1995
date QS:P571,+1995-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium bronze
medium QS:P186,Q34095
.
Dimensions 100 × 150 × 200 cm (39.3 × 59 × 78.7 in). Weight: 428 kg (950.42 lb).
Creator:British Library
Current location
London, England, United Kingdom.
Object history
References [1] (archived at [2]).
Source/Photographer Own work; photographed by Senra (John McCullough) on 31 October 2006, 15:45.
Other versions [3].
Camera location51° 31′ 45.99″ N, 0° 07′ 37.44″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo
There is a discrepancy of 17580 meters between the above coordinates and the ones stored at SDC (51°31′46″N 0°7′37″E, precision: 5 m). Please reconcile them.

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Captions

The sculpture Sitting on History (1995) by Bill Woodrow, located in the Entrance Hall of the British Library in London, England, UK. The work, with its ball and chain, refers to the book as the captor of information from which we cannot escape.

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

Carl Djerassi

coordinates of the point of view

51°31'45.988"N, 0°7'37.441"E

focal length

16.5 millimetre

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current13:23, 22 July 2010Thumbnail for version as of 13:23, 22 July 2010800 × 600 (371 KB)Senra{{Information |Description={{en|1=Bill Woodrow's 'Sitting On History' was purchased for the British Library by Carl Djerassi and Diane Middlebrook in 1997. It was photographed in the foyer (lobby) of the British Library. Sitting on History, with its ball
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