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Statues for the Egyptian Hall in the Mansion House: "Leah - by P. MacDowell, R.A. , 1856. Sculpture as part of a commission for '...poetic statues in marble to decorate the Mansion House of the Lord Mayor of London...They will add materially to the architectural beauty of [George] Dance's building. The architectural requirements of the Hall rendered it necessary that the statues should be standing statues....the Egyptian Hall...will, in point of sculptural decoration, surpass the most beautiful of public or private buildings existing in London..."Leah", a figure of great natural beauty, is the work of Mr. Patrick McDowell [sic], R.A.'. From "Illustrated London News", 1856.