£1,500
Five Centuries: Furniture, Paintings & Works of Art | 588
Auction: 5 February 2020 at 10:00 GMT
in the form of an obelisk on a separate squared base fitted with four white marble plaques inscribed WATERLOO 18TH. JUNE 1815/ TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON AND THE BRITISH ARMY WILLIAM KERR SIXTH MARQUIS OF LOTHIAN AND HIS TENANTRY DEDICATE THIS MONUMENT 30TH JUNE 1815./ WELLINGTON/ VICTORY
Provenance: Property from Newbattle Abbey, Midlothian
Note: This obelisk may be a model for a monument, not realised, commissioned by the 6th Marquis of Lothian in 1815 to commemorate Wellington's victory at Waterloo. The original monument, designed by the Scottish architect William Burn and described as a pyramid, was built on the summit of Penielheugh on the Monteviot estate near Jedburgh in the Scottish Borders. It famously collapsed 'with a tremendous crash' a year after being built and was replaced by the triumphal column designed by Archibald Elliot which still occupies the spot.