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Queen Victoria on Horseback
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Artist: |
Baron Carlo Marochetti
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This postcard-size image of Marochetti's Glasgow Queen Victoria comes from the image-collection of the British sculptor, Ernest Gillick (1874-1951). This collection is now in the Archive of the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds. Gillick's interest in the statue may have something to do with the fact that it was he who sculpted the 1914-18 War Memorial for George Square, Glasgow, where a slightly different version of Marochetti's Queen Victoria now stands. However, what is interesting about this image is that it shows Marochetti's statue, not as it now is, but as it was when first erected in Vincent Place in 1854. The statue as we now see it in George Square, is the modified version which Marochetti produced in 1866 as a companion to his new statue of Prince Albert. In the 1866 version of the statue, the Queen's horse has both rear hoofs on the ground, giving the statue greater stability, and is less elaborately caparisoned. The statue in the picture has a matt appearance, and is perhaps a plaster darkened to make it look like bronze. It may be the plaster which formed the central feature of the Great Industrial Exhibition in Dublin in 1853. Queen Victoria saw it there, and recorded in her journal that she thought it "very fine but spoilt by being over varnished". (Queen Victoria's Journal, vol.36, p.19, 2 Sept. 1853)
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Unassigned
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Year: |
1854 |
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Key: |
5768 |
Acc. No.: |
5768 |
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5768 |
Number of views: |
2688 |
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