Items - Cast in Stone

Boer War Memorial (The Black Watch), Edinburgh

Boer War Memorial, Bedford

Boer War Memorial, Belfast

Boer War Memorial, Birmingham

Boer War Memorial, Bury

Boer War Memorial, Dewsbury

Boer War Memorial, Huddersfield

Equestrian statue of John Hope

Equestrian statue of Prince Albert, Holborn

Accompanied by two bronze relief panels, titled "The Prince laying the first stone of the Royal Exchange, Jan 17, 1842", and "Exhibition of All Nations, 1851, Britannia distributing awards", and two bronze allegorical girls representing "History" and "Peace".

Equestrian statue of Prince George, the Duke of Cambridge

Equestrian statue of the Black Prince

Although a depiction of Edward, the Black Prince, Historic England describes the equestrian statue as 'almost certainly a tribute to Edward VII'. Though the origins of "The Black Prince" as an appellation for the former Edward are uncertain, the nickname also raises interesting questions about the meanings of blackness in fourteenth century Europe, or indeed how ideas of blackness have been reconfigured in the present.

Equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington, Glasgow

Equestrian statue of William III, Westminster

Memorial to Alfred Lewis Jones, Liverpool

Commemorative memorial at bust length of Alfred Lewis Jones (1845–1909) with a bronze allegorical statue of Liverpool placed above.

Monument to Jean-Baptiste Marchand, Paris

The monument is a 12-metre-long wall, tiered into three steps rising from left to right to a height of 4.30 metres. To the left: a bas-relief depicts a line of 11 marchers, with the Europeans at the head of the line. The mission doctor is seated on a low stool, treating a soldier. A European waits beside him, keeping an eye on the column. The itinerary, marked with place names, is engraved above the column. Plants appear between the figures. Right: the statue of Marchand is detached from the monument, raised and oversized in relation to the others. Bareheaded, arms folded, he stands facing the viewer, guarding the flagpole and shield, both in bronze. This statue was damaged and removed in 1983. The names of all the Europeans and the number of African soldiers are engraved on the shield.

Nelson's Column

Depicts a standing figure of Nelson, on top of a high Corinthina pillar with an elaborate capitol. Nelson is in a dynamic standing posture, wearing eighteenth-century military attire, and holding a sword in his left hand. The sleeve of the amputated arm is tucked into the lapels of the court. The four sides of the pedestal are decorated with four bronze reliefs, created using captured and melted French cannons. The south-facing panel, titled 'The death of Nelson' depicts a soldier with African features, holding a musket. David Olusoga notes how contemporary observers noticed this figure, their African features, and commented on it positively. Four bronze Barbary lions were added to the base of the column much later, in 1867.

Royal Artillery Boer War Memorial, London

Second Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment memorial, Eastbourne

Bronze statue of a colonial officer, wearing the uniform of the Bengal Regiment prior to the Indian Mutiny, on top of a granite plinth. The plinth is accompanied by four bronze panels. The bronze plaques on the south west and north west sides are pictorial reliefs of soldiers in action in the Black Mountain and Tirah expeditions. The plaque on the south east side dedicates the memorial to the Second Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment, while the plaque on the north west side lists the names of 328 men who died in service between 1882 and 1902.

Statue of Alexandra, Whitechapel

Statue of Arthur Bower Forwood

Statue of Bernard Montgomery

Statue of Charles Gordon, Westminster

Statue of Charles Palmer

Statue of Edward Colston

The almost hunched, contemplative figure represents Colston in his maturity. For a likeness, the sculptor may have turned to Jonathan Richardson’s portrait of 1702, a version of which hangs in the Council House. The reclining figure by Rysbrack on Colston’s tomb in All Saints, Corn Street, may also have been useful. The monument shows a younger, more vigorous man, although Rysbrack may well have used the same source. Cassidy’s statue depicts Colston in early eighteenth century clothes […] Three of the side reliefs show apocryphal or symbolic scenes from Colston’s life. One shows Colston distributing alms in the street; another depicts mythical seahorses and tritons pulling an anchor; the third depicts the legend […] of a dolphin plugging a leak in one of Colston’s ships. […] It was this ‘incident’ that is said to have caused Colston to adopt the dolphin as his emblem. Stylised dolphins, with writhing tails and looking more like animated catfish, are at each corner of the pedestal. The fourth panel bears an inscription and the sculptor’s name. (Merritt & Greenacre 2011: 41)

Statue of Edward Stanley, Parliament Square

Statue of Francis Drake, Tavistock

Statue of Francis Russell 5th Duke of Bedford

Statue of Frederick Courteney Selous, Natural History Museum

Statue of Frederick James Tollemache

Statue of Hans Sloane, Killyleagh

Duplicate of the statue of Hans Sloane in Chelsea, London.

Statue of Henry Bartle Frere

Statue of Herbert Ingram

Statue of James George Smith Neill

One of two statues dedicated to Neill. The other is currently located in the collections of the Madras Museum in India.

Statue of James Outram

Statue of John Franklin, Westminster

Statue of John Nicholson, Lisburn

Statue of John Platt

Statue of Joseph Pease

Statue of Joséphine de Beauharnais, Fort-de-France

Statue of Josephine standing in white marble.

Statue of King Edward VII, Kirklees

Statue of King Edward VII, Reading

The sculptor George Edward Wade produced this statue of Edward VII for Reading as well as a second statue in Madras (Chennai) in India in 1902, the latter of which is now in the collections of the Government Museum in Fort St. George.

Statue of King Edward VII, Sheffield

Statue of King Edward VII, Tooting

Statue of King Edward VII, Windsor

Statue of King George III, Somerset House

Statue of Mungo Park

The statue of Mungo Park is accompanied by four bronze statues on each corner of the plinth, as well as two bronze reliefs on either side. The original statue of Park was created by Andrew Currie in 1859, while the bronze figures and reliefs were added by Thomas John Clapperton in 1913. According to the commission, the four figures were designed to symbolise 'the four tribes with whom Park came in contact in his travels in South Africa'. They supposedly represent "Peace", "War", "Slavery", and "Home Life in the Niger".

Statue of Nicholas Conyngham Tindal

Statue of Queen Victoria, Belfast

Statue of Queen Victoria, Brighton and Hove

Statue of Queen Victoria, Bristol