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Equestrian statue of Henry Hardinge
Monument
- Media metadata | Métadonnées multimédias
- has description | a une description
- The statue of Hardinge was originally installed in Kolkata, India, in 1858, but was repatriated to the UK in 1950 after Indian independence.
- was classified by | a été inscrite, classée, protégée par le biais de
- Grade II
- depicts | figure
- Hardinge, Henry, 1st Viscount Hardinge
- consists of | consiste en
- bronze
- was produced by | a été produit par
- Foley, John Henry
Statue | La statue
- has inscription | a une inscription
- On the original pedestal, now lost:
THIS STATUE WAS ERECTED
BY THE INHABITANTS OF BRITISH INDIA
OF VARIOUS RACES AND CREEDS
TO HENRY, VISCOUNT HARDINGE,
IN GRATEFUL COMMEMORATION OF A GOVERNOR,
WHO, TRAINED IN WAR,
SOUGHT BY THE ACTS OF PEACE
TO ELEVATE AND IMPROVE THE VARIOUS NATIONS
COMMITTED TO HIS CHARGE,
AND WHEN RE-CALLED TO ARMS BY UNPROVOKED INVASION AT MOODKEE, FEROZESHAH, AND SOBRAON,
MAINTAINED THE REPUTATION WHICH, IN YOUTH, HE WON BY TURNING THE TIDE OF VICTORY, AT ALBUERA
Plinth | Le socle
- is referred to by | est référencé par
- Historic England
- Equestrian Statues
- Royal Collections Trust
- University of Cambridge
- Mary Ann Steggles, Statues of the Raj (London: BACSA, 2000), pp. 110-112