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Title:
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Victory on a couchant British lion
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Artist: |
Baron Carlo Marochetti
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This is a detail from a chromolithograph by Vincent Brooks, after a painting by John Ballantyne, of Carlo Marochetti in one of his studio spaces in Sydney Mews, off the Fulham Road, which can probably be dated to around 1866. The detail shows a figure of Victory seated on the back of a couchant British lion. This is clearly a plaster model for the bronze group fronting the plinth of the Monument to Colin Campbell Lord Clyde (see entry), for which Marochetti probably received the commission towards the end of 1863, but which was only finally inaugurated in Waterloo Place, London, towards the end of 1867, shortly before Marochetti's death. What is interesting about this image is that it shows Victory with wide-spreading wings, whereas the figure on the monument as erected is wingless. No explanation has so far been found as to why the decision was taken to omit the wngs on the monument.
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Unassigned
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Year: |
1866 |
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Key: |
6150 |
Acc. No.: |
6150 |
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6150 |
Number of views: |
2463 |
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