Baron Carlo Marochetti Italian, 1805-1868

This fascinating contemporary 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.