FDA-Sc.52-2017
Parts
Object number
FDA-Sc.52-2017
Object type
Identification
Title
Founder's Statue: King Henry VI
Description
Bronze cast statue of the figure of a king with marble plinth and iron railings
Comments
The Founder's Statue cost £443 17s. 11s. (The invoice is in the collection of the Buckinghamshire Archaeological Society). The eight sturdier balusters within the railings that surround the sculpture are very similar to those that surround the copy of Francis Bird's statue of Queen Anne, outside the main entrance to St Paul's Cathedral (the original version of Queen Anne, made in 1712, is now at The Ridge in Hastings).
Other number
FDA-A.154-2010
Description
Dimension note
the statue approx. 72in. high; the pedestal approx. 51in. high
Inscription
The Latin inscription on the pedestal translates as:
'TO THE NEVER - FADING MEMORY / OF THE MOST PIOUS PRINCE HENRY THE SIXTH, / KING OF ENGLAND AND FRANCE, / AND LORD OF IRELAND, / HENRY GODOLPHIN, / PROVOST OF THIS COLLEGE, / HAS ERECTED THIS STATUE OF ITS / MOST MUNIFICENT FOUNDER, / A. D. 1719.'
'TO THE NEVER - FADING MEMORY / OF THE MOST PIOUS PRINCE HENRY THE SIXTH, / KING OF ENGLAND AND FRANCE, / AND LORD OF IRELAND, / HENRY GODOLPHIN, / PROVOST OF THIS COLLEGE, / HAS ERECTED THIS STATUE OF ITS / MOST MUNIFICENT FOUNDER, / A. D. 1719.'
Production
Person
Bird, Francis, 1667 - 1731 (Sculptor)
Date
1719
History and association
