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Title:
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Prince Arthur
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Artist: |
Baron Carlo Marochetti
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This is a bronze reduction of the statue of Prince Arthur which Prince Albert presented to Queen Victoria as a birthday gift in 1853. The Queen was given the plaster model in 1853, but the marble version of the statue was sent to Osborne House in August 1854. The Queen herself went on to order reductions in a variety of materials. The historian of the British Royal Collection, Jonathan Marsden, has identified two main allusions in this figure. On the one hand it recalls representations of Christ holding the Cross, but the replacement of the Cross with a sword, almost as high as the child, is a reference to the Prince's recently deceased Godfather, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, after whom he had been named. The Prince is thus represented as an heir to the valour of the Iron Duke. (Jonathan Marsden, Victoria and Albert. Art and Love. Cat. of an exhibition held in the Buchkingham Palace Galleries in 2010, p.91)
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Material(s): |
Bronze
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Medium: |
Unassigned |
Finish: |
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Technique: |
Cast |
Genre: |
Portrait Statuette (Standing)
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Colours: |
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Year: |
1853 |
Height: |
0.33 metres |
Width: |
0 metres |
Depth: |
0 metres |
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Key: |
2340 |
Acc. No.: |
2340 |
Col. No.: |
2340 |
Number of views: |
2591 |
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