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From left to right, David Diebold, Chairman of the Northeast States Committee; Walter Wriston; Henry Grunwald; Sir Robert Renwick, British Ambassador to the United States; John Diebold, Programme Director of Northeast States Committee. One of a series of Nationhood lectures, planned in association with the RSA's American Northeast States Committee, delivered at the Harvard Club of New York

RSA/AD/MA/302/19/52 · Item · 26/5/1994
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The figure of Minerva, representing arts, is holding a shield bearing the Gorgon's head and a spear. Three statues were commissioned by Sebastian de Ferranti, a former Vice President of the RSA, to be installed on the pediment of the house as originally proposed by Robert Adam, the architect. The figures were made by Plowden and Smith.