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Title:
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Tomb of Prince Albert and Queen Victoria
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Artist: |
Baron Carlo Marochetti
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(Photo: Royal
Collection Trust/ © Her Majesty Queen
Elizabeth II 2020)
RC IN 45185
The marble
effigy of Prince Albert on the tomb in the Royal Mausoleum at Frogmore was only
put in place in 1868, and we are told that work on it was still being done by the
carver, Robert Glassby, after Marochetti's death. This means that any reproductions
or plaster models, which may follow the sculptor's original model, have a
certain interest, and maybe some atograph quality, which, despite the very fine carving, the marble may lack. In this bronze 'souvenir' version, cast by
Elkington and Co. using the electrotype process, it may be observed that the
Prince's hair is treated in a less mechanical way than in the marble. This is
but one of a number of reproductions, including another bronze and a Parian
Ware version, as well as several casts from the head, which are in the Royal
Collection. Also, back in the 1980s, full-size plaster models of both effigies,
also from the Royal Collection, were put on display in the Victoria and Albert
Museum. This was in the days when photography was not permitted in the museum.
The Marochetti specialist will ask: are these casts and reproductions taken
from the finished marble or from the sculptor's original model, and can they
tell us anything about the fidelity or otherwise of the marble at Frogmore?
Jonathan Marsden, who has written about this bronze, has dated it c1865, in
other words roughly three years before
the completion of the marble.
(see J.
Marsden, Victoria and Albert: Art and
Love, London 2010, pp.440,441)
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Material(s): |
Bronze
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Medium: |
Unassigned |
Finish: |
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Technique: |
Cast |
Genre: |
Funerary Monument
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Location: |
Royal Collection, , ,
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Colours: |
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Year: |
1865 |
Height: |
0.19 metres |
Width: |
0.39 metres |
Depth: |
0.87 metres |
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Key: |
5857 |
Acc. No.: |
5857 |
Col. No.: |
5857 |
Number of views: |
3220 |
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