Title

Angel of the Scutari Monument, by Marochetti, at the Crystal Palace, 1856. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

Angel of the Scutari Monument, by Marochetti, at the Crystal Palace, 1856. Detail from a model of the Scutari Monument, designed by Baron Marochetti, which was unveiled by Queen Victoria at the Crystal Palace in Sydenham. It was '...made in imitation of granite, with a weeping figure of an angel at each corner'. The full-size monument, which became known as the Crimean War Memorial, was commissioned to commemorate the Crimean War. It comprises a granite obelisk on a square base with four identical angels on its upper part, each bearing a palm frond and a wreath, and serving as caryatids to support a canopy. It is located in the English Cemetery, Haidar Pasha, a suburb of Istanbul between Uskudar (Scutari) and Kadikoy. From "Illustrated London News", 1856.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM23A57_321

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39,2Mb (3,3Mb) / 8,3in x 18,3in / 2496 x 5489 (300dpi)

Keywords

religious architecture religion memorial British color angel war obelisk century War Memorial Britain newspapers press concept B&W palm frond engraved engraving Colour laurel wreath 19th century black & white black and white B W white and black Monument nineteenth century The Print Collector Guards' Crimean Monument Illustrated London News winged figure ILN newspaper Crimean War Unknown Carlo Marochetti Marochetti Carlo Charles Marochetti Marochetti Charles Baron Carlo Marochetti Crimean War Memorial Guards Crimean War Memorial laurel crown 19th-century Scutari Monument