Queen Victoria on Horseback

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

1853

Thomas Thornycroft
English, 1815-1885

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Thomas Thornycroft
Title: Queen Victoria on Horseback
Place: England (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1853
Medium: Bronze
Inscriptions: inscribed: T. THORNYCROFT FEC/LONDON 1853
Dimensions: 54.6 × 17.8 cm (21 1/2 × 7 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Arthur Rubloff
Reference Number: 1988.36.10
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Fine Art Society, British Sculpture 1850–1914: A Loan Exhibition of Sculpture and Medals Sponsored by the Victorian Society, 30 September – 30 October 1968 (London: E. C. Freeman Limited, 1968), no. 62.
Elfrida Manning, Marble and Bronze: The Art and Life of Hamo Thornycroft (London: Trefoil Books, 1982), pp. 29–34, fig. 19.
Sotheby’s, 19th and 20th Century Sculpture (November 29, 1991), lot 208.

Arthur Rubloff (d. 1986), Chicago, by 1986; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1988.

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