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List of illustrations

  • Prince Albert
  • View of the Holland Park Sculpture Exhibition
  • Viscount Hardinge
  • George IV
  • The Duke of Wellington
  • The Duke of Wellington
  • Constance and Arthur, The Fairbairn Group
  • Constance and Arthur, The Fairbairn Group
  • General Napier
  • The Duke of Wellington
  • Dr. Jenner
  • Guards' Crimean War Memorial, detail
  • Richard Coeur de Lion
  • George Dawson
  • The Bard
  • A Girl Reading
  • Dr. Hunter
  • Lord Clive
  • The Tinted Venus
  • The Eagle Slayer
  • Youth at the Stream
  • Model for the Wellington Monument in St. Paul's Cathedral
  • Sir Robert Peel, detail
  • Sir Robert Peel, detail
  • Sir Robert Peel
  • Andromeda
  • Amazon on Horseback Attacked by a Tiger
  • Godefroy de Bouillon
  • The Greek Slave
  • Youth at the Stream
  • Valour and Cowardice
  • Self-portrait of John Graham Lough
  • Sir John Franklin
  • Cotton-spinning
  • The Wounded Warrior
  • Winter
  • The Mother
  • Oliver Goldsmith
  • Henry, first Duke of Lancaster
  • Artemis
  • Puck
  • Original models for statues at the Houses of Parliament
  • Head of Viscount Gough
  • Queen Victoria
  • Remains of Earl of Carlisle and Viscount Gough
  • Thomas Attwood
  • The Octoroon
  • At the Spring/Early Morn
  • A Child in the Bath
  • Interior of the studio of Alexander Munro
  • Asia
  • Sir Robert Peel
  • Thomas Woolner
  • Interior of the studio of Alexander Munro
  • Interior of the studio of Alexander Munro
  • Alexander and Bucephalus
  • Boadicea
  • Ino and Bacchus
  • Sir Charles Barry
  • Sir John Franklin
  • Monument to William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Interior of the studio of Alexander Munro
  • Nelson being executed
  • Innocence in Danger, detail
  • Mother and Child/The Lord's Prayer
  • Lord Tennyson
  • Lord Tennyson
  • Innocence
  • Youth at the Stream
  • Prince Albert
  • Sir Benjamin Guinness
  • The O'Connell Monument, detail
  • The O'Connell Monument
  • Queen Victoria
  • Bartle Frere
  • William Stokes
  • Robert James Graves
  • Edward Akroyd
  • Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm
  • Lord Macaulay
  • John Hampden
  • Lucius Cary, Viscount Falkland
  • Charles James Fox
  • John Somers
  • Joseph Sturge
  • John Fielden
  • Viscount Nelson
  • The Battle of the Nile
  • Lion
  • Lord Collingwood
  • Archilles
  • The Duke of Wellington
  • The Duke of Wellington
  • Monument to the Duke of Wellington
  • Prince Albert
  • View of the interior of the Albert Memorial Chapel
  • General view of the Albert Memorial
  • The Albert Memorial, detail
  • America
  • Commerce
  • Engineering
  • Africa
  • Chemistry
  • Prudence, Humility, and Temperance
  • Philosophy
  • Monument to Lord Lawrence
  • Lord Lawrence
  • Monument to Robert Southey, detail
  • Monument to William Wordsworth
  • Queen Victoria
  • Thomas Alexander
  • William, third Earl of Rosse
  • Sir Robert Peel
  • The Fourteenth Earl of Derby
  • Sir Robert Peel
  • Monument to Humphrey Chetham
  • The Wellington Monument
  • General view of the Albert Memorial
  • The Sculpture Hall
  • George Wilson
  • John Bright
  • W. E. Gladstone
  • Sir Thomas Potter
  • Oliver Cromwell
  • John, fourth Earl of Hopetoun
  • General view of the Scott Monument
  • The Scott Monument, detail
  • Allan Ramsay
  • Adam Black
  • Sir Walter Scott
  • General view of the Scott Monument
  • Sir Robert Peel
  • Thomas Drummond
  • Henry Grattan
  • Prince Albert
  • Sir Robert Stewart
  • William de Mowbray
  • William III
  • Mary II
  • Charles II
  • William III
  • James Losh
  • Lord Armstrong
  • Prince Albert
  • Francis Bacon
  • W. E. Gladstone
  • William Whewell
  • Isaac Barrow
  • The Rt. Hon. Thomas Lefroy
  • W. C. Magee
  • Sir James Young Simpson
  • Sir Cowasji Jehangir
  • Monument to Bishop Waldegrave
  • Monument to Bishop Ryder
  • Monument to the Wesley brothers
  • View of the Main Hall
  • Prince Albert
  • Prince Albert
  • Queen Victoria
  • Prince Arthur as a Hunter
  • Penelope with the Bow of Ulysses
  • Hyacinthus
  • The Amazons and the Argonaut
  • La Filatrice Addormentata
  • Paul et Virginie
  • Innocence in Danger
  • The interior of the Print Room at Windsor Castle, detail
  • Eos
  • Prince Albert
  • Somnus
  • Milo
  • View of the Main Hall
  • The Tired Hunter
  • Sleeping Bacchante
  • Musidora
  • Eve after the Fall
  • General view of the Somerleyton Hall
  • Night
  • Day
  • Sir Hugh Myddelton
  • John Fielden
  • Commerce, from Sir Robert Peel, detail
  • Navigation, from Sir Robert Peel, detail
  • Sir Robert Peel
  • Sir Robert Peel, detail
  • Sir Robert Peel, detail
  • Sir John Franklin, detail
  • The Forging an Armstrong Gun, from Sidney, Viscount Herbert of Lea, detail
  • Council of War, from The Duke of Wellington, detail
  • The Duke of Wellington, detail
  • The O'Connell Monument, detail
  • Albert Memorial, detail
  • Science, from Albert Memorial, detail
  • Art, from Albert Memorial, detail
  • Industry, from Albert Memorial, detail
  • Agriculture, from Albert Memorial, detail
  • The Albert Memorial
  • Prince Albert and Queen Victoria at home, from the Albert Memorial, detail
  • The Opening of the Great Exhibition, from the Albert Memorial, detail
  • Servicemen Paying Homage, from the Albert Memorial
  • Europe
  • The Leicester Monument, detail
  • Frieze, detail
  • Moore Memorial Fountain
  • Teaching the Ignorant, from the Moore Memorial Fountain
  • Queen Victoria (The Randall Fountain)
  • Humphrey Chetham, detail
  • Oliver Goldsmith
  • Monument to Sir Robert Peel
  • Major Aglionby
  • The Monument to Sir John Malcolm, detail
  • Sir Robert Peel
  • Jonas Webb
  • Manockjee Nesserwanjee, detail
  • William Hogarth
  • Henry William Whitbread
  • Monument to Sir James Outram
  • Monument to George Gordon, fourth Earl of Aberdeen
  • At the R. A.—Triumph of Realistic Art
  • Lord Byron
  • William Huskisson
  • Princess Gouramma of Coorg
  • William Whewell, detail
  • Greyfriars Bobby, detail
  • Rear view of Asia
  • The Monument to Percy Bysshe Shelley, detail
  • M. E. Gray
  • Robert Browning
  • Paolo and Francesca
  • Linnaeus
  • King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
  • The Statue of a King, detail
  • The Monument to William Wordsworth, detail
  • View of the Main Hall
  • Mother and Child, detail
  • Pauline Lady Trevelyan
  • Robertson Mausoleum
  • Interior view of the Robertson Mausoleum
  • Brooks Mausoleum
  • Houldsworth Mausoleum
  • Interior view of the Houldsworth Mausoleum
  • Monument to Lawrence Rawstorne
  • Monument to John, Marquess of Bute
  • Monument to John Jackson Blencowe
  • Monument to Francis Aglionby
  • Monument to Walter Fletcher
  • Monument to Sir James Yorke Scarlett
  • Monument to Thomas Sheffield
  • Monument to Edward Brown and his wife
  • Monument to Clara Thursby
  • Monument to Mrs. Farrington
  • Monument to Charles, Lord Sudeley and his wife
  • Monument to the seventh Earl of Cardigan and his wife, detail
  • The Charge of the Light Brigade from the Cardigan Monument, detail
  • Cenotaph of Prince Albert
  • The effigy from the Cenotaph of Prince Albert, detail
  • Truth, from the Cenotaph of Prince Albert
  • Mourning Queen, from the Cenotaph of Prince Albert
  • Monument to Cardinal Cullen
  • Monument to Sir John and Lady Pole
  • Model for Wellington Monument: Truth and Falsehood
  • Figure on arch, Salisbury Cathedral, Chapter House Vestibule
  • Andromeda
  • Narcissus, detail
  • The Falconer
  • Chryseis
  • Psyche at the Well
  • The Lord's Prayer, detail
  • The Angel's Whisper
  • Highland Mary
  • Sabrina
  • Egeria
  • The Death of Tewdric, King of Gwent, at the moment of Victory over the Saxons
  • The First Whisper of Love
  • Waiting His Innings
  • The Picture Book
  • The Housemaid
  • Pediment group
  • Tympanum
  • Sir High Myddelton
  • Sir Richard Whittington
  • Sir Thomas Gresham
  • Pediment group
  • Pediment group
  • Pediment group
  • Pediment group
  • Pediment group
  • Pediment group, detail
  • Todmodern Town Hall
  • Agriculture
  • Sculpture
  • Navigation
  • Astronomy
  • Adam Smith
  • Pediment group
  • Sculpture on (former) West of England and South Wales District Bank
  • (Former) West of England and South Wales District Bank
  • Autumn
  • America
  • Queen Eleanor
  • Alderman Whitson
  • Capital
  • Euclid
  • Watt
  • View of the studio of Alexander Munro
  • Sculpture, detail
  • The Assize Courts, Great Ducie Street, Manchester
  • Ye Pillory
  • King Edward I
  • Richard Coeur de Lion
  • Capital
  • Humphrey Chetham and Henry, first Duke of Lancaster
  • Weaving, Old Style
  • Reredos
  • Alexander the Great
  • Carving on Eleanor Cross
  • Reredos
  • Interior of St. James the Less
  • Capital
  • Pulpit, detail
  • The Resurrection
  • St. Mary Magdalene
  • The Decollation of St. John the Baptist
  • Boss-head and capital
  • Altarpiece
  • Moses
  • The Pelican Feeding her Young
  • Hugh Owen
  • Monument to Mrs. Craik
  • Monument to Dean Howard
  • West front of Cork Cathedral, detail
  • Pulpit
  • Tympanum
  • Statues on choir screen
  • West front of Lichfield Cathedral, detail
  • Figures on the Memorial to the Westminster Scholars killed in the Crimean War
  • Fine Art
  • Sir Thomas Gresham
  • Figure sculpture
  • Africa
  • Art
  • Agriculture
  • Greek Runner
  • Monument to Charles Howard and his wife
  • Monument to the Duke of Wellington, detail
  • Monument to Sir Thomas Cholmondeley
  • Monument to Sir Thomas Cholmondeley
  • Monument to Bishop Lonsdale
  • Lord Holland
  • Hugh Lupus
  • Physical Energy
  • Physical Energy, detail
  • Lord Tennyson
  • Athlete Wrestling with a Python
  • The Eagle slayer, detail
  • Sir Rowland Hill
  • Icarus, detail
  • Perseus Arming
  • Icarus
  • Field Marshal Burgoyne
  • Disraeli
  • William Tyndale
  • Eros
  • Le Courage Militaire
  • L'Éducation Maternelle
  • Lady Mary Murray
  • Peasant woman nursing a baby (Paysanne française allaitante)
  • Charity (La Charité), detail
  • Prudence, Justice, Truth, Thrift
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • David Vainqueur
  • The Visit of Nicodemus to Our Lord
  • Tympanum
  • St. Christina
  • Joule
  • Dame Alice Owen
  • Monument to the Duke of Clarence, detail
  • St. John the Baptist
  • Peter Pan
  • Peter Pan, detail
  • Castagnettes
  • Thyrsis
  • Perseus
  • Hounds in Leash, detail
  • Hounds in Leash
  • Mysteriarch
  • Ignis Fatuus
  • Peace
  • The Elf
  • Nude
  • The Mower
  • Dr. Hunter
  • The Age of Innocence
  • Monument to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Monument to Bishop Lloyd
  • Monument to Lord Leighton
  • Monument to William Graham
  • Decorative sculpture
  • Frieze, detail
  • Frieze, detail
  • Charity
  • Reredos
  • Reredos, detail
  • Angel and Children
  • Monument to the Duke of Albany
  • Queen Victoria and Sharp
  • Noble
  • Monument to the Duke of Clarence
  • Monument to the Duke of Clarence, detail
  • Queen Victoria
  • Monument to Dean Colet
  • Mors Janua Vitae
  • Monument to Charles Turner and his son
  • Bartle Frere
  • General Gordon
  • General Gordon, detail from base
  • Edward VII
  • Bishop Gore
  • Memorial to Queen Alexandra
  • The Reverend Lewis Edwards
  • Sir Walter Scott
  • Bishop Fraser
  • Lieutenant Walter R. Pollock Hamilton, V.C.
  • W. E. Gladstone
  • Pediment group
  • Charles Darwin
  • W. E. Forster
  • The Spirit of Contemplation
  • Monument to Sir James Graham
  • Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  • Queen Victoria
  • Sir Joseph Bazalgette
  • Monument to John Collingwood Bruce
  • Monument to the Margate Ambulance Men
  • Monument to Wallace Hartley
  • Monument to Peter Lowe
  • Sir Charles Hallé
  • Joule, detail
  • Joule, detail
  • Oliver Heywood
  • Queen Victoria
  • Queen Victoria, detail
  • W. E. Gladstone
  • Queen Victoria
  • W. E. Gladstone
  • Queen Victoria
  • Benjamin Disraeli
  • J. T. Fielding
  • James Dorrian
  • David Livingstone
  • John Elder
  • Sir William Pearce
  • Field Marshal Earl Roberts
  • Field Marshal Earl Roberts, detail
  • St. Mungo
  • John Campbell, Baron Overtoun
  • Margaret Somerville
  • Atlas figure
  • Capital
  • Monument to Queen Victoria
  • Queen Victoria
  • Queen Victoria
  • Victoria Memorial
  • Victoria Memorial, detail
  • Victoria Memorial, detail
  • Victoria Memorial, detail
  • Victoria Memorial, detail
  • Victoria Memorial, detail
  • Victoria Memorial, detail
  • W. E. Gladstone
  • W. E. Gladstone
  • W. E. Gladstone, detail
  • Monument to W. E. Gladstone
  • Monument to W. E. Gladstone, detail
  • Monument to W. E. Gladstone, detail
  • Gladstone Memorial
  • Gladstone Memorial, detail
  • Courage from Gladstone Memorial, detail
  • Brotherhood, from Gladstone Memorial, detail
  • Education, from Gladstone Memorial, detail
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Description: Victorian Sculpture
~The aim of this book is to offer an introduction to a particular, large area of artistic activity, Sculpture in Britain between about 1830 and about 1914. The fact that no such introduction exists in part explains how the book came about and its manner of presentation. Originally I was asked by Alan Bowness to give a brief survey of the subject to his...
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Description: Victorian Sculpture
~Some four miles out of Cambridge, near the village of Madingley and overlooking a lake, stands a statue of Prince Albert by John Henry Foley R.A. (plate 1). Inscribed with the artist’s name and dated 1866, it is in certain respects typical of Victorian...
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~Palgrave’s writings should warn us that there may be more to Victorian sculpture than meets the (present-day) eye. The strength of his views both for and against the work he considered implies some variety, and the fact that his criticism is the cynosure of an extensive literature should lead us to infer the existence of an extensive, active industry. It then...
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~There is a poem in Robert Browning’s Dramatis Personae (1864) called ‘Youth and Art’,Browning i pp. 599–600 about a youthful couple (probably in Rome), he a sculptor and she a singer. She is addressing the sculptor in later life and regretting that their acquaintance...
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~This account of the sculptor’s working life has so far related mainly to its practical aspects, and particularly to procedures of execution. But certain features already mentioned have further practical and ideological ramifications that affect the whole nature of the art, the way we relate to it and, more importantly, the way it was seen and considered at the...
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The preceding description of the sculptor’s life—how he set about his career and executed his works—should have demonstrated, if nothing else, that to overcome the practical, material and conceptual limitations of the art...
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f the answer to the question ‘Shall Smith have a Statue?’ was ‘yes’, this settled the basic premise for the work. But there were further considerations involved in the commemorative idea, not least that of the design and scale of the monument...
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PART III
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Above the hub of the City of London, where the Bank of England faces Mansion House, watched over by the Royal Exchange, above indeed the massive portico of this latter building, the symbolic entrepôt of the City’s commercial prowess...
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~Architectural sculpture, as may by now be apparent, had very much its own sets of conventions and contexts, and the effect of these was not unnaturally largely limited to that area of activity to which they were strictly relevant: it is, for instance, difficult to see the formal and practical criteria of architectural sculpture having any influence on the plethora...
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PART IV
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~In 1876 the figure of Prince Albert by John Henry Foley...
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For all the distinctive qualities of the New Sculpture that have been traced so far, the basic framework of the profession continued as before, though in certain areas the new formal contribution brought striking changes...
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~Contemporary accounts of Victorian sculpture are few, and none cover the entire period. William Bell Scott’s The British School of Sculpture (London, n.d., c. 1871/2) contains an introductory essay followed by a selection of plates with critical commentary on the artists concerned, but these are only deceased ones, starting in the...
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~The following are reproduced by gracious permission of Her Majesty the Queen: plates 24,...
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