The Jane Austen Waxwork is a life size wax model of the author, commissioned by the Jane Austen Centre.
The process was taken a step further in 2011, when the Jane Austen Centre commissioned a three-dimensional, life-size wax figure.
Numbers 31 to 40 have been designated as Grade II . The Jane Austen Centre is at number 40, although Jane Austen actually lived at number 25.
The completed figure was unveiled to the world media on Wednesday 9 July 2014, at the Jane Austen Centre; the figure being displayed in a specially created space within the Centre.
In 2002, David Baldock, Director of the Jane Austen Centre, commissioned forensic artist Melissa Dring to create a new portrait of Austen, after reading about her work creating a likeness of Vivaldi for a film company, from eye-witness accounts.
Jane Austen never liked the city, and wrote to Cassandra, " It will be two years tomorrow since we left Bath for Clifton, with what happy feelings of escape . " Bath has honoured her name with the Jane Austen Centre and a city walk.
The "'Jane Austen Centre "'at 40 Gay Street in Bath, Somerset, England, is a permanent exhibition which tells the story of Jane Austen's Bath experience the effect that visiting and living in the city had on her and her writing.