These two very fine reliefs appear to be unique.
https://www.bada.org/object/pair-eighteenth-century-coade-stone-oval-plaques
Bacchanalian Scene.
Coade Artificial Stone relief;
stamped 'Coade Lambeth./ 1792' at lower
right.
60.7 x 24.7 cm.
The Rutland Fountain Dublin was erected in memory of the Duke of Rutland, the Lord Lieutenant, who died of Dublin fever in 1787 at the age of 33. Recent research has confirmed it as the work of Francis Sandys and constructed by Arthur Darley, one of the stonemasons from the Dublin Customs House.
Charles Manners, Duke of Rutland. (1754 -1787).
The fountain, officially the ‘Duke of Rutland Memorial Fountain,’ was commissioned before his death by the Duke ‘to provide drinking water for the city’s poor.’
It was designed by the architect Francis Sandys,
and built of Granite with Portland Stone dressings and Coade Artificial Stone
embelishments in 1791 - 1792 by Arthur Darley, a stonemason who had worked on
the Dublin Custom House.
It was decorated with 4 Coade artificial stone lidded urns and a larger oval
lidded urn, two portrait reliefs - and a central figurative
relief showing a younger Duke of Rutland as Marquess of Granby, relieving a
distressed soldier and his family (much distressed) two further female reliefs (below) and the Water Goddess (or
Naiad).
As MP for Cambridge University (1774-1779), Manners vehemently
opposed the taxation of America. At he age of 25, he succeeded his father as
Duke of Rutland in 1779, and he was appointed the Viceroy or Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland in 1784, before he had reached the age of 30. He died of Liver Disease
24 October 1787.
The works were carried out under the direction of the Paving Board
in 1792.
Images below from -
https://www.cbsconservation.co.uk/projects/the_rutland_memorial_fountain_dublin_ireland/
See my previos post for the Water Godess originally the main feature of the fountain.
https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-coade-artificial-stone-river-gods.html
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