Writers, Artists & Performers
Dr Samuel Johnson
Johnson stands book in hand behind his own church, St Clement Danes, gazing up Fleet Street towards Gough Square where he compiled the Dictionary. 'When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life' — the statue keeps him in the thick of it.
- Subject
- Samuel Johnson, dictionary-maker and man of letters
- Sculptor
- Percy Fitzgerald
- Unveiled
- 1910
- Material
- Bronze
- Location
- Behind St Clement Danes, Strand
- Area
- City of London
