"Unveiled in 1914, it had to be covered up because of complaints about the figure’s exposed genitals

A fig leaf was added but in the 1920s a group of anti-censorship protestors..."

Oscar Wilde's grave, one of the Observer's gallery of ten notable monuments to the dead:

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Photograph: Luc Novovitch/Alamy