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Statue équestre d'Henry Hardinge

Monument

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La statue de Hardinge était à l'origine installée à Kolkata, Inde, en 1868, mais elle a été rapatriée au Royaume-Uni en 1950, après l'indépendance de l'Inde.
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Statue | La statue

shows visual item | présente l'item visuel
consists of | consiste en
was produced by | a été produit par
Foley, John Henry

Plinth | Le socle

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Sur le piédestal d'origine, aujourd'hui perdu :
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
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