All that's left on display of James Alexander Ewing's 1897 larger-than-life bust of Beethoven on Renfrew Street in Glasgow. Once a well-known landmark on this street, Beethoven's head was apparently removed from his shoulders for safety reasons about 2019 and then left lying around in a vacant lot for a couple of years. It's now been removed for safe-keeping, and with a bit of luck the two parts of this sculpture will one day be reunited.

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Shipbuilding: A Homage to those who Made the Clyde Great by Hector McGarva and James Cosgrove. Sited in Bellahouston Park in Glasgow.

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Sculptures around the doors to 114-118 Queen's Drive in Glasgow. Representing the Arts, they are usually taken as being Music, Painting (middle two) and Literature. However, I think the second one may be Dance rather than Painting.

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Oatlands Girl by Rob Mulholland, in the Oatlands area of Glasgow.

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James Watt seated beside the steam condenser he invented and which helped revolutionise the use of steam power for industrial processes. This is on the former Athenaeum on Nelson Mandela Place in Glasgow and was created by the legendary sculptor John Mossman in 1886.

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Just arrived through my door: 538 pages of sculptury goodness. Can't wait to dive into it and learn more about Glasgow's many public sculptures, and the amazingly skilled artists who created them.

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If you ever come across a sculpture of any kind in Glasgow (like this one) and want to find out more about it, there's a rather brilliant resource which can help. It's the Glasgow - City of Sculpture website created by Gary Nesbit, which you can find it here: http://www.glasgowsculpture.com/

In case you're interested, this one is called The Progress of Science, and is on the Glasgow University's James Watt Building.

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