Lot 112
BARON CARLO MAROCHETTI (ITALIAN 1805-1867)
QUEEN VICTORIA ON HORSEBACK
The Forbes Collection at Old Battersea House
Auction: 1 November 2011 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Bronze, signed, on moulded wooden plinth base
Dimensions
55cm (21.7in) wide, 50cm (19.7in) high
Footnote
Exhibited: The Noble Horse, The Bunkamura Museum of
Art, Tokyo, September 2-October 22, 2000, no. 87.
Note: This bronze reduction of the Monument to Queen Victoria in George Square, Glasgow, records Marochetti's original composition as it was at the time of its inauguration in St. Vincent Place in 1854. The left hind leg is lifted off the ground as it is in the reproduction in the Illustrated London News (16th Sept. 1854). An account in the Building Chronicle dating to the same month and a newly discovered photograph of a working plaster model in the E. Gillick collection at the Henry Moore Institute also record this feature. Marochetti altered the leg to sit flush with the ground in a reworking dating to 1866-8, at the time of its relocation.