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 statue cost of £443 17s. 11s. (The invoice is in the colletion of the Buckinghamshire Archaeological Society)
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
