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Status of Peter Nicol Russell

Description of statue

A young masculine iron founder is found holding a hammer leaning on an anvil. what appears to be an angle ( guardian angle?) is seen hovering over the young boy, placing her left arm protectively on the boy's shoulder. The angle's wings are spread open, appearing as she's ready to help the iron founder. A statue of Peter Nicol Russel rest proudly on the top of the momument.

engravement beneath the statues reads 'to the University of Sydney by Dame Charlotte Russell in memory of her late husband Sir Peter Nicol Russell, a munificient benefactor who endowed the Peter Nicol Russell School of Engineering' june 23rd 1909

on a closer look, the name B Mackennal 1909 is engraved on the side on the anvil.