Carlisle, Cumbria - Queen's Monument - postcard - 1903 local pmk.

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  Queen's Monument, Carlisle
• Publisher:  H & S Series, Carlisle
• Postally used:  yes
• Stamp:  Edward VII half d. bluish green definitive
• Postmark(s):  Carlisle Aug 190 1903 ds
• Sent to:  Miss L. Keller, John Street, Brierley Hill, Staffordshire
• Notes / condition: 

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Brock was born in Worcester, attended the School of Design in Worcester and then undertook an apprenticeship in modelling at the Worcester Royal Porcelain Works. In 1866 he became a pupil of the sculptor John Henry Foley. He married in 1869, and had 8 children. After Foley's death in 1874, Brock completed some of his commissions.

He first came to prominence when he was asked to complete the statue of Prince Albert for the Albert Memorial. In 1901 Brock was awarded the colossal equestrian statue of Edward the Black Prince, set up in Leeds City Square, and was also given perhaps his most significant commission, the vast multi-figure Imperial Memorial to Queen Victoria in front of Buckingham Palace. According to legend, at the unveiling in May 1911, George V was so moved by the excellence of the memorial that he called for a sword and knighted Brock on the spot.

His group The Moment of Peril (now in the garden of Leighton House) was followed by The Genius of Poetry, at the Carlsberg Brewery, in Copenhagen, Eve, and other ideal works that mark his development. Other works include busts, such as those of Lord Leighton and Queen Victoria, statues, such as Sir Richard Owen and Henry Philpott, bishop of Worcester, and sepulchral monuments such as Lord Leighton in St Pauls Cathedral, a work of singular significance, refinement and beauty.

Brock was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1883 and full member in 1891.

[edit] Works

• Statue of Sir Rowland Hill, inventor of the Penny Black and modern postal system. Vicar Street, Kidderminster. Unveiled 26 June 1881.^[4][5]
• Statue of Queen Victoria on the grounds of the Belfast City Hall
• memorial to the victims of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, also on the grounds of Belfast City Hall
• statue and bas-relief on the Sir Henry Bartle Frere Memorial, Whitehall Gardens, London
• statue of Sir Henry Irving on Charing Cross Road, London
• figures of Navigation and Gunnery at the Admiralty Arch, London

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=england

county/ country=cumberland/ westmorland

number of items=single

period=pre - 1914

postage condition=posted