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Queen Elizabeth on Horseback Entering Kenilworth Castle
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Baron Carlo Marochetti
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This group in massive silver was exhibited by the firm of Hancock at the Great Exhibition of 1851 (see Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue. Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851, vol.2, p.692). It was modelled by Marochetti, but the two greyhounds which accompany the Queen were, according to the catalogue of the exhibition, the work of M'Carthy. This was probably the animal sculptor Hamilton W. Maccarthy, or his brother Carlton M. Maccarthy. The catalogue informs us that the figures accompanying the Queen are Robert, Earl of Leicester and a page. The elaborate base, of which a description is given in the catalogue, was made of oak, with marble columns, and included gilt panels. It featured armorials, mottos and emblems. Hancock and Marochetti were not the only people to exhibit a work with this subject at the exhibition. The Birmingham firm of Elkington, Mason & Co. also exhibited a racing trophy, the Warwick Race Plate, with a group of the same subject, executed for them by their in-house modeller, the Frenchman, Pierre-Emile Jeannest. This was illustrated in the Illustrated London News for 6 Sept. 1851, p.277. A London newspaper, the Express (24 May 1851) stated that Marochetti had "somewhat modernized" his image of the Queen, but without indicating in what manner this had been done. Perhaps the journalist considered that she had been represented as less stif in her deportment than was traditional. According to The Examiner (10 May 1851), Marochetti's group was executed "with wonderful truth and beauty..... in dead and frosted silver in the highest style of art".
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6397 |
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