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Sculpture

Greyfriars Bobby

1873 Old Town, Edinburgh
Greyfriars Bobby
Sumit Surai · CC BY-SA 4.0

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About this work

The Greyfriars Bobby Fountain is a granite fountain in Edinburgh, surmounted by a bronze life-size statue of Greyfriars Bobby, a Skye Terrier or Dandie Dinmont Terrier who became known in 19th-century Edinburgh for supposedly spending 14 years guarding the grave of his owner John Gray, until the dog himself died on 14 January 1872.

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William Brodie
1815–1881 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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