Queen Caroline
Monument at Stowe.
Portland Stone
Attributed to Rysbrack
c.1726.
http://faculty.bsc.edu/jtatter/caroline.html
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Queen Caroline
Henry Cheere
Queens College
Oxford.
Over the Gate way of Queens College, underneath a cupola facing onto the High Street.
Presented to the college in 1735 by the Provost Joseph smith in recognition of the queens gift of £1,000 to the building fund of the college in 1733.
Dr Magrath in The Queens College says that the cost of the statue was £125 - the design was approved by Dr George Clarke and Sir James Thornhill.
A Black plaster bust in the Lower Library is of the Queen and is perhaps a study for the head of this statue.
Info above from Catalogue of Portraits... Oxford,. Mrs Reginald Lane Poole, pub Oxford 1925.
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Pages below from The Queens College Vol II by John Richard Magrath DD, pub. Oxford. 1921.
see - The Queens College, John Richard Magrath, 1921 available on line at
https://archive.org/details/queenscollege02magr
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Photographs here by William Fox Talbot. 1843.
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