16 NOVEMBER 1918, Page 5
BRITANNIA BY DIVINE PROVIDENCE TRIUMPHANT.
Reproduction of Flaxman's Model of the colossal Statue of Britannia, designed in 1799, to be placid on Greenwich Hill to commemorate the Sea-Power of Britain. The toy soldiers shown at the base of the monument arc exactly to scale, life-size. An account of Flaxman's scheme is given on pp. 514-46.