2-914-069 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The New Houses of Parliament - Statue of Selden, 1854. Sculpture of John Selden by John Henry Foley, in the Palace of Westminster, London. Selden was a 17th-century English jurist, scholar of laws and constitution, and an antiquary. One of a '...series of portrait statues which have been prepared for St. Stephen's Hall. That of John Selden, by Foley, is full of dignified simplicity; the head is finely expressive; the costume is that of Selden's time'. From "Illustrated London News", 1854.