American architect and building news. April 30, 1892. Proposed statue of Lieutenant Hamilton, V.C. to be erected in Dublin. C.B. Birch, A.R.A.
Ink-photo, Sprague & Co., 4 & 5, East Harding Street, Fetter Lane, E.C.
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| Summary: | Lithograph numbered "No. 855. American architect and building news", featuring an image of the slightly over-life-size statue of Lieutenant Walter Pollock Hamilton standing over an Afghan man who is threatening him with a knife. In fact the sculpture was produced in bronze-painted plaster by English sculptor Charles Bell Birch (1832-1893), A.R.A. [Associate Royal Academy] in Dublin in 1880. [When he was younger Birch was principal assistant to John Henry Foley R.A., best known for his statue in Dublin of Daniel O'Connell and for the Albert Memorial in London]. Lieutenant Walter Pollock Hamilton served in the Staff Corps and Corps of Guides of the British Indian Army during the Second Anglo-Afghan War. He was awarded the Victoria Cross medal for bravery during action at Futtehabad, Afghanistan on the 2 April, 1879 (Second Anglo-Afghan War). He died on 3 September, 1879 during an attack on the Bala Hissar fortress, within the city of Kabul. This sculpture originally formed part of the Royal Dublin Society Collection [when it was housed in Leinster House]. This sculpture was moved to the National Army Museum, Chelsea in 1985. See p. 268, note no. 146 of Dr. Paula Murphy's book 'Nineteenth-century Irish Sculpture', Yale University Press, 2010. |
| Format: | Prints & Drawings |
| Language: | English |
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[London] :
Sprague & Co. [for the American Architect and Building News],
April 30, 1892.
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| Notes: | Formerly held at NLI call number 4530 TB. 'The American Architect' was a weekly periodical on architecture published between 1876 and 1938. Originally titled 'The American Architect and Building New', in 1909 it changed its' name to 'The American Architect'; in 1921 it changed name again to 'The American Architect and the Architectural Review' (the second part of the name being the serial it absorbed). The periodical reverted to its’ original name in 1925 and was absorbed into Architectural Record in 1938. Physical description: 1 print : lithograph ; 32 x 22.2 cm.. more |
