Focus on Statue of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Victoria Embankment and explore the Installation.
For Brunel's statue, Shaw was commissioned to design a stone pedestal.  His design, with novel flanking walls creating a screen, was accepted in 1874, and the pedestal was completed and the statue installed in 1877.  (The National Portrait Gallery has a half-plate negative photograph of the statue by Elliott & Fry which they date to 1857, although the plinth shows Brunel's date of death in 1859.)
The statue became a grade II listed building in 1958.  The statue and screen were restored in 1950, repairing damage caused by both the weather and by enemy action during the Second World War.
National Portrait Gallery listed building Elliott & Fry