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  • Home
    • About
    • A Thomas Browne Society?
    • Contact
    • Funding support
  • Champions
    • Kevin Faulkner
    • Anthony Batty Shaw
  • His Life
  • His works
    • Overview of major works
  • Public Art
    • Public Art : Thomas Browne by henry Pegram
    • Public Art : Homage to Sir Thomas Browne
    • Talking Statues
    • Tazro Niscino installation
  • Events
    • Past events
    • Thomas Browne Day 2019
    • Thomas Browne Day 2018
    • Thomas Browne Day 2018
    • Thomas Browne Day 2017
  • Links
    • In Our Time
    • Articles
  • Publications
    • Adventures of STB in 21st C
  • Gallery
  • How Thomas Browne are you?
  • Thomas Browne Blog
  • Thomas Browne around Norwich
  • Stories and anecdotes
    • A Cabinet of Rarities
    • A humorous take on STB
  • FLOW : Temporary art commissions

Public art relating to
Sir Thomas Browne

Public art in Norwich

There are two pieces of public art relating to Sir Thomas Browne in Norwich, both of them situated on Hay Hill in the centre of Norwich.

A statue of the man, by Henry Alfred Pegram which was commissioned by the city to commemorate the tercentenary of Browne's birth in 1905 and Homage to Thomas Browne, commissioned in 2005 (installed 2007) by Norwich City Council as part of the market refurbishment and to celebrate 400 years since his birth. Click on the links above  to read more about each piece. 
More about the Pegram statue
More about homage to Sir Thomas Browne

 Sir Thomas Browne by Henry Pegram 1905

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The story goes that this water feature was filled in after art students added purple dye and detergent to the water and caused a huge frothy mess of bubbles!

Homage to Thomas Browne
​by Anne & Patrick Poirier 2007

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photo by Keith Roberts
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Artist Patrick Poirier examines 'the brain'
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Artist Patrick Poirier
A part of the commission for the 
Other works commemorating Browne
In 1932 the English painter Paul Nash chose to illustrate  Sir Thomas Browne's Urn Burial and The Garden of Cyrus, providing the publisher with a set of 32 illustrations to accompany Browne's Discourses. A pencil drawing by Nash called "Urne Buriall: Teeth, Bones and Hair" is held by Birmingham Museums Trust.

The National Portrait Gallery in London has a fine contemporary portrait by Joan Carlile of Sir Thomas Browne and his wife Dorothy, Lady Browne (née Mileham). 

In 2005 Robert Mileham's small standing figure in silver and bronze was commissioned for the 400th anniversary of Browne's birth.
In 2018, the theme for annual contemoprary art exhibition Cley 18 was 'The greater the distance, the clearer the view' a quote from Thomas Browne via Max Sebald. Here is a selection of specifically Browne-related works
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Rhona Fleming Test Piece for Religio Medici, a portrait for Thomas Browne
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Allen, Jules and Williams, Phyllis - Museum Clausum
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This site is part of the Thomas Browne Project with the aim to collate information and contributions about Sir Thomas Browne, his work, life and times in Norwich and make them accessible to the public,  edited and published by Marion Catlin of The Shift Norwich
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