The Little Mermaid (statue) cities; others include: "Manneken Pis" in Brussels, the Statue of Liberty in New York and "Christ the Redeemer" in Rio de Janeiro. In several cases, cities have commissioned statues for such a purpose, such as with Singapore's "Merlion". The statue was commissioned in 1909 by Carl Jacobsen, son of the founder of Carlsberg, who had been fascinated by a ballet about the fairytale in Copenhagen's Royal Theatre and asked the ballerina, Ellen Price, to model for the statue. The sculptor Edvard Eriksen created the bronze statue, which was unveiled on August 23, 1913. The statue's head was modelled after Price,
Charlotte Payne-Townshend and was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium, where her ashes were kept until Shaw's death in 1950. Their ashes were taken to Shaw's Corner, mixed and then scattered along footpaths and around the statue of Saint Joan in their garden. Charlotte Payne-Townshend was also a translator. Amongst other things she translated Eugène Brieux's play "Materrnité" for the London stage. It was put on by the Stage Society, at Daly's Theatre in 1910. Shaw Library, on the sixth floor of the Old Building, London School of Economics, was founded by and named after her. Charlotte Payne-Townshend Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend (20 January