Shape Number: 383
After John Thomas
Length: 17″

The subject is from Tennyson. Godiva rode naked thru the streets of Coventry so that the citizens of the town would not have to pay her husband’s (the Earl of Mercia) new corn tax:
“Then she rode forth clothed on with chastity.
The deep air listened round her as she rode.
And all the low wind hardly breathed for fear.”
The original statue was exhibited by John Thomas at the R.A. in 1861.
Minton first showed its Parian version of Lady Godiva at the London International Exhibition of 1862.

The shape photo is from The Minton Archive.