|
Title:
|
Memorial to Officers of the Bengal Engineers
|
Artist: |
Baron Carlo Marochetti
|
This memorial, raised in 1862, is described in the Illustrated London News 1 August 1863. The article recounts how, of the 67 officers in the Bengal Engineers, active in 1857, 16 were killed during the Indian Mutiny, whilst 22 survived, but with wounds. To commemorate those who died, the genius of Marochetti had "designed a very significant and characteristic memorial". The description runs: "the monument consists of a large tablet in the form of a portal, in which bronze reliefs of the Cashmere Gate and of other memorable localities where many of the Bengal Engineers won undying fame in the moment when they ceased to live, are inscribed; the upper portion of the slab being occupied by a series of heads in the same material of the officers who fell during the mutiny". The article appears to err on the subject of the number of scenes depicted on the memorial, and possibly on the materials of which it is made. Richard Barnes, who wrote an entry on the memorial (R. Barnes and M.A. Steggles, British Sculpture in India, Kirstead, Norfolk, 2011, pp.156-157), states that the portraits and landscape relief are in 'black stone' rather than bronze, and that the landscape represents "a scene from the siege at Lucknow, with damaged buildings and a high walled enclosure where a burying party of soldiers lay a comrade into a grave".
|
|
|
Material(s): |
Bronze
|
Medium: |
Unassigned |
Finish: |
- |
Technique: |
Cast |
Genre: |
Commemorative monument
|
Location: |
Calcutta Cathedral, , ,
|
Colours: |
|
Year: |
1862 |
Height: |
0 metres |
Width: |
0 metres |
Depth: |
0 metres |
|
Key: |
2259 |
Acc. No.: |
2259 |
Col. No.: |
2259 |
Number of views: |
3247 |
|
|