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were dashed with the bloody slime of the battle-field, and he himself sat anxious in his quietness, grieved in his fearlessness, as he watched, scythe-stroke by scythe-stroke, the gathering in of the harvest of death? You would have done something had you thus left his image in the enduring iron, but nothing now.

131. But the time has at last come for all this to be put an end to; and nothing can well be more extraordinary than the way in which the men have risen who are to do it. Pupils in the same schools, receiving precisely the same instruction which for so long a time has paralysed

that the Duke gave Mr. Steell¹ a sitting on horseback, in order that his mode of riding might be accurately represented. This, however, does not render the following remarks in the text nugatory, as it may easily be imagined that the action of the Duke, exhibiting his riding in his own grounds, would be different from his action, or inaction, when watching the course of a battle.

I must also make a most definite exception in favour of Marochetti, who seems to me a thoroughly great sculptor; and whose statue of Cœur de Lion, though, according to the principle just stated, not to be considered a historical work, is an ideal work of the highest beauty and value. Its erection in front of Westminster Hall will tend more to educate the public eye and mind with respect to art, than anything we have done in London for centuries.

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April 21st, 1854.-I stop the press in order to insert the following paragraph from to-day’s Times:-“THE STATUE OF CŒUR DE LION.-Yesterday morning a number of workmen were engaged in pulling down the cast which was placed in New Palace Yard of the colossal equestrian statue of Richard Cœur de Lion. Sir C. Barry was, we believe, opposed to the cast remaining there any longer, and to the putting up of the statue itself on the same site, because it did not harmonise with the building. During the day the horse and figure were removed, and before night the pedestal was demolished and taken away.”²

¹ [Sir John Steell (1804-1891), knighted on the inauguration of the Scottish memorial to Prince Albert, 1876; appointed sculptor to Queen Victoria for Scotland, 1838. His bronze statue of Wellington was erected in 1852.]

² [The statue now stands in Old Palace Yard, between Westminster Hall and the Peers’ Entrance. It was first shown at the Great Exhibition of 1851. Baron Carlo Marochetti (1805-1867) had been employed both by Carlo Alberto and by Louis Philippe. He was afterwards patronised by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, and executed many works in this country, including the Inkerman monument in St. Paul’s. He was elected R.A. in 1866.]

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