The Naked Ladies
in Twickenham, United KingdomCategory: Attraction
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The Naked Ladies are a statue complex on a rockery and water cascade in the gardens of York House, Twickenham, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, England. The larger than human size statues depict eight Oceanids and a pair of aquatic horses. They were carved in the fin de siècle style from white Carrara marble and probably came from Italy in the late nineteenth century or very early twentieth century. Originally they were part of a larger set of statues that was subdivided after the suicide of the initial purchaser.
After a somewhat unpromising start, they were installed in their current location without the benefit of the original design for their display. The Ladies then spent several years as the backdrop for some of London's grandest garden parties. They subsequently passed by default into public ownership, and suffered various indignities but have been restored and remain to this day on view in the corner of a municipal garden.
