FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   100   101   102   103   104   105   106   107   108   109   110   111   112   113   114   115   116   117   118   119   120   121   122   123   124  
>>  
agen. Victory and Fame hold medallions. (Rossi.) 32. =Napier= (Admiral Sir Chas., 1786-1860). Second in command at bombardment of Acre, and commanded English part of the allied fleet in the Baltic, 1854. A tablet. (G. Adams.) 33. =Le Marchant= (Major-Gen. John Gaspard, d. 1812). Killed at Salamanca. To the left is Spain placing the trophies in the tomb; to the right Britannia instructing a cadet. (Designed by C.H. Smith and executed by Rossi.) 34. =Hallam= (Henry, 1777-1859). Historian, and father of the "Arthur" of "In Memoriam." (Theed.) 35. =Johnson= (Samuel, 1709-1784). More fault has been found with this design than with any other. Instead of partially draping the colossal statue of the great man of letters in a toga, Bacon might have adopted the more correct taste of Flaxman with Reynolds (No. 17) and represented him in his Oxford D.C.L. robes. This criticism does not apply to the execution. (Bacon.) 36. =Bowes= (Major-Gen., d. 1812). Indiscriminate fault-finders may well study this piece of work with fifteen figures. Bowes, storming a wall at Salamanca, falls back into the arms of his men. (Chantrey.) 37. =Duncan= (Admiral Adam Viscount Duncan, 1731-1804). Defeated the Dutch Fleet off Camperdown October 11, 1797. A simple statue, with a seaman and wife and child on the pedestal. (R. Westmacott.) 38. =Dundas= (Major-Gen. Thomas, 1750-1794). The inscription sets forth that Parliament voted this monument with especial reference to services in the West Indies. Britannia, attended by Sensibility and the Genius of Britain, crowns the bust with a laurel wreath. (John Bacon, jun.) 39. =Crauford= and =Mackinnon=. Above No. 38. Two Major Generals who fell at Ciudad Rodrigo, 1812. The partially draped figure with musket and target is that of a Highland soldier, mourning; the other is the stereotyped Victory placing a wreath. (J. Bacon, jun.) SOUTH TRANSEPT. *40. =Nelson= (Vice-Admiral Horatio Viscount Nelson, K.B., and Duke of Bronte in the Neapolitan peerage, &c., 1758-1805). Completed about 1818, and placed just east of where the dean's stall now is (then outside the choir rails); placed in present position 1870. The actual statue in uniform and with left hand resting on anchor and cable is 7 feet 8 inches in height, and the whole monument about 18 feet. Flaxman thus described his design:--"Britannia is directing the young seamen's attention to their great example, Lord Nelson. On the die of the p
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   100   101   102   103   104   105   106   107   108   109   110   111   112   113   114   115   116   117   118   119   120   121   122   123   124  
>>  



Top keywords:
statue
 

Nelson

 

Admiral

 

Britannia

 

Flaxman

 
wreath
 
monument
 

placing

 
Salamanca
 

design


Viscount

 

partially

 
Victory
 

Duncan

 
laurel
 

figure

 
draped
 
Generals
 

Ciudad

 

Mackinnon


Crauford

 

Rodrigo

 

services

 

Westmacott

 

Dundas

 

Thomas

 

pedestal

 

simple

 

seaman

 

inscription


attended

 
Indies
 

Sensibility

 

Genius

 

crowns

 
Britain
 

musket

 
Parliament
 

especial

 
reference

anchor
 

resting

 
inches
 
uniform
 

present

 

position

 
actual
 

height

 
attention
 

seamen