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dc.coverage.spatialSite: London, England, United Kingdomen_US
dc.coverage.temporal1863-1876 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorScott, George Gilbert, Ien_US
dc.creatorArmstead, Henry Hughen_US
dc.creatorPhilip, John Birnieen_US
dc.creatorFoley, John Henryen_US
dc.date1863-1876en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-09-16T20:13:01Z
dc.date.available2013-09-16T20:13:01Z
dc.date.issued1863-1876en_US
dc.identifier234304en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 2604en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/141731
dc.descriptionDetail, one of the continent sculpture groups at the outer corners; "The Americas" by John Bell; Commissioned by Queen Victoria in memory of her beloved husband, Prince Albert who died of typhoid in 1861. In 1863 Scott's design for the memorial to Prince Albert in Hyde Park, London, was chosen , but not until 1876 was J. H. Foley’s gilded statue of the Prince finally set in its great Italian Gothic tabernacle [ciborium, derived from the Scaliger Tombs, Verona], enriched by Scott’s favorite craftsmen, including the sculptors Henry Hugh Armstead, John Birnie Philip and J. F. Redfern (1838-1876), the stone-carvers Farmer & Brindley, the ironworker Francis Skidmore and for the mosaics the designer J. R. Clayton (1827-1912) and the maker Antonio Salviati (1816-1890). The central part of the memorial is surrounded by the elaborate sculptural Frieze of Parnassus, which depicts 169 individual composers, architects, poets, painters, and sculptors. Armstead carved the figures on the south and east side, the painters, musicians and poets (80 in total), and grouped them by national schools. John Birnie Philip carved the figures on the west and north side, the sculptors and architects, and arranged them in chronological order. At the corners of the plinth there are two allegorical sculpture programs: four groups depicting Victorian industrial arts and sciences (agriculture, commerce, engineering and manufacturing), and four more groups representing Europe, Asia, Africa and The Americas. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 7/18/2012)en_US
dc.format.mediumgilded bronze; marble; enamel and glass mosaicen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectallegoryen_US
dc.subjectdecorative artsen_US
dc.subjecthuman figureen_US
dc.subjectportraiten_US
dc.subjectrulers and leadersen_US
dc.subjectAlbert, Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1861en_US
dc.subjectNineteenth centuryen_US
dc.subjectGothic Revivalen_US
dc.titleAlbert Memorialen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A1-SGG-AM-D10en_US
vra.culturalContextBritishen_US
vra.techniquecarving (processes), construction (assembling), mosaic (process), casting (process), metalworking, painting and painting techniquesen_US
vra.worktypesculpture (visual work)en_US
vra.worktypemonumenten_US
dc.contributor.displayGeorge Gilbert Scott I (British architect, 1811-1878); Henry Hugh Armstead (British sculptor, 1828-1905); John Birnie Philip (British sculptor, 1824-1875); John Henry Foley (Irish sculptor, 1818-1874) and othersen_US


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