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Image: Marochetti's Wellington at Waterloo

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Description: Bronze relief panel detail from the Duke of Wellington statue, Glasgow. The sculptor was Pietro Carlo Giovanni Marochetti, born in Turin in 1805, but raised in Paris where he became a French citizen in 1814. After settling in London he won numerous commissions for public monuments throughout Britain, including four bronze statues in Glasgow: the equestrian Duke of Wellington in Royal Exchange Square (1840-4) and the equestrian statues of Queen Victoria (1854) and Prince Albert (1866), also James Oswald (1856), all three in George Square.
Title: Marochetti's Wellington at Waterloo
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Author: Kim Traynor
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