Where is it? #18

The latest in the series in which we ask you to identify where in London this picture was taken and what it’s of. If you think you can identify this picture, leave a comment below. We’ll reveal the answer early next week. Good luck!

Congratulations to Janet Holmes who correctly stated this is the weathervane on top of the cupola Whitechapel Gallery, located in Whitechapel High Street. The weathervane was created by Canadian artist Rodney Graham for the opening of the extended gallery in 2009 when the gallery was expanded to include the former Passmore Edwards Library next door (a weathervane had been planned to top the library’s cupola when it was built in the late 19th century but was never installed). Graham’s weathervane depicts the Renaissance scholar Erasmus sitting backwards on a horse reading a book, In Praise of Folly (there’s a story that this is how Erasmus wrote the book). For more on the gallery, see www.whitechapelgallery.org. Or check out Rodney Graham’s art book, British Weathervanes.

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