Statues - Hither & Thither

 

Description

Statue of Lord Herbert represented in his robes as a peer.

Florence Nightingale instructing nurses in their duties of tending wounded and sick soldiers, in the Herbert Hospital, Woolwich.
The volunteer corpses: the colonels of the Queen's Westminsters, the London Irish, the London Scottish, and the Hon. Artillery Company, which the troops passing.	The forging of the Armstrong gun at Woolwich foundry.

The statue was in 1867 erected in front of the War Office in Pall Mall, where it was unveiled by the Duke of Cambridge. In it was 1906 moved to the new War Office on Whitehall and in 1914 to the present location.

Inscription(s)

Signature

Sculptor

• John Henry Foley (Dublin 1818 - London 1874), Irish sculptor (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

• Wikipedia, Crimean War Memorial.
• Andrew Kershman, London's Monuments (London: Metro Publ., 2013), p. 100.
• John Blackwood, London's Immortals: The Complete Outdoor Commemorative Statues (London: Savoy, 1989), p. 186-187.
• London Remembers, Memorials.
• Bob Speel, Sculptures at Waterloo Place.
• The Victorian Web, The Art of Sculpture in Victorian Britain.
• Illustrated London News, Saturday 8 June 1867 (British Newspaper Archive).

Tags

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