Il Porcellino Macquarie Street Sydney
When tourists wander up Macquarie Street from Circular Quay, having seen the Harbour Bridge and Opera House, they often stop outside Sydney Hospital. Relieved to find something else worth photographing, they raise their cameras in front of Il Porcellino, a replica of the wild boar cast by Baroque master Pietro Tacca in 1612.
The statue was one of five produced by Florence foundry Fonderia Ferdinando Marinelli in 1962. It was donated to the hospital by Clarissa Torrigiani in 1968, in memory of her father Dr Thomas Fiaschi and brother Dr Piero Fiaschi, who both served as surgeons there. Sydney Eye Hospital on Macquarie Street Sydney Australia