Sujet

Monument to Mrs Huskisson, 1856. Creator: John Gibson.

Légende

Monument to Mrs Huskisson, 1856. Plaster relief of a memorial to Emily Milbanke, widow of British MP William Huskisson. Huskisson was the first person to be killed in a railway accident. Emily is depicted kneeling at a lectern with an angel hovering over her, reminiscent of Annunciation scenes.

Date

1856

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Royal Academy of Arts, London/Paul Highnam

Notre référence

HRM26A34_052

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

65.5Mo (8.3Mo) / 39.1cm x 42.0cm / 4616 x 4960 (300dpi)

Mots clés

female women woman people religious flying arts religion shape memorial sculpture art wings British color hovering floating death Neo-classical Christianity relief angel Victorian century gesturing Britain kitsch plaque concept mythology cast mould mythological hand gesture funerary prayer book mold hand Gestures Plaster Cast Colour drapery 19th century bas relief bas-relief annunciation Neoclassical Neoclassicism Monument nineteenth century Neo-Classicism artistic movement winged figure sculpture plaster William Emily William Huskisson Huskisson Huskisson 19th-century Royal Academy of Arts John Gibson Gibson John John Gibson RA Emily Milbanke Milbanke Emily Huskisson