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Memorial to the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers, Indian Mutiny
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Artist: |
Baron Carlo Marochetti
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The Army and Navy Gazette for 4 September 1860 reported: "The officers, non-commissioned officers and privates of the 9th Lancers have just erected a beautiful monument in the Cathedral at Exeter in memory of their comrades....... The design, which is executed by Baron Marochetti in his best style, consists of a massive slab, containing the names of the officers, non-commissioned officers and privates who fell during the Mutiny, and on each side there is a figure of a mounted Lancer in bronze, underneath a palm tree. The air of repose about these figures is very beautiful and the effect of the sombre bronze standing out against the marble is strikingly grand". Marochetti had created an earlier memorial for Exeter Cathedral in 1857, commemorating men of the East Devon Regiment who fell in Crimea. That memorial also silhouetted its figures against a white background, in that case, provided by the wall of the cathedral. The Lancers Memorial is similar in design to the one Marochetti sculpted for St Paul's Cathedral in London to the men of the Household Cavalry who died in the Crimean War. Whereas the London memorial is made entirely of marble, here individual Lancers, palm trees and other decorative motifs are cast in bronze and mounted on a marble ground. Another novel feature of the memorial is the incorporation of real medals amongst the decorative motifs framing the inscription.
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Material(s): |
Bronze and Marble
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Unassigned |
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Genre: |
Commemorative monument
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Location: |
Exeter Cathedral, , ,
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Year: |
1860 |
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Key: |
2567 |
Acc. No.: |
2567 |
Col. No.: |
2567 |
Number of views: |
2702 |
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