Thursday, 25 May 2017

Rysbrack at Windsor Castle redux



The Rysbrack Busts at Windsor Castle
Redux.

The Royal Collection Photographs by John Wesley Livingston, 1874

Of the eleven terracotta busts that Rysbrack completed for Queen Caroline’s library at St James’s Palace only three survive: Edward the Black Prince (RCIN 37067), Edward VI (RCIN 53346) and Queen Elizabeth I (RCIN 45101). The others were destroyed, and this one partially damaged, in 1906 when the shelf on which they stood collapsed. The busts had been moved to the Orangery at Windsor Castle in 1825 when Queen Caroline’s library at St James’s Palace in London was demolished.

See my previous posts - http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/the-terracotta-busts-by-rysbrack-from.html                    and following posts.



5"x7" glass plate negative of two terracotta busts of Henry Stuart, Prince of Wales (WC sculpture 201) and Catherine of Valois (WC sculpture 200).





 5"x7" glass plate negative of two terracota busts of Edward III (WC Sculpture no.192) and Philippa of Hainault, Queen of England (WC Sculpture no.193). They were displayed in the Grand Vestibule, Windsor Castle about 1880.



5" x 7" glass plate negative of 2 terracota busts of Edward The Black Prince (RCIN 37067), WC sculpture 194 and Edward VI (RCIN 53346), WC sculpture 195.


5"x7" glass plate negative of two terracota busts of Henry V (WC sculpture 196) and Elizabeth of York (RCIN 31667), WC sculpture 197 (with nose).

Four Photographs above from


From Glass Negatives

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