- Title:
- Victory
- Object name(s):
- Sculpture; British
- Brief description:
- This Victory is the work of the British neoclassical sculptor, Edward Hodges Baily, as are its pair and another six female figures, which all adorn the façade of the National Gallery.In 1826, Baily received a large order for sculpture, including four statues of ‘Victories’, for Marble Arch, which was to be erected in celebration of Britain’s defeat of the French in the Napoleonic Wars. Although Baily completed his commission, not all of his work was used as originally intended; some parts ended up adorning other government buildings. During the construction of the National Gallery, its architect, William Wilkins, was forced, in a cost-cutting exercise, to recycle masonry and statuary from other projects. This explains the presence above the Gallery's central portico of this statue personifying Victory and its pair, either side of Charles Rossi’s relief depicting Asia and Europe, even though all three pieces were initially created for the Marble Arch commission.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Accession date:
- 2019-12-04
- Date - earliest / single:
- 2019
- Date - latest:
- 2019
- Credit line:
- Commissioned by the Office of Works for the Marble Arch, and installed on the Gallery by 1838
- Current location:
- Gallery Exterior: Central Portico
- Current reproduction location:
- 614/651/953/mid_H-0208-00-000009.jpg
- Material:
- Portland stone
- Object name:
- Sculpture; British
- Object production date:
- 1826-32
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1826
- Date - latest:
- 1832
- Object production person:
- Edward Hodges Baily
- Person's birth date:
- 1788-03-10
- Person's death date:
- 1867-05-22
- Object production place:
- 8 Percy Street
- Other number:
- H208
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0UXC-0008-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- H208
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- R106
- Other number type:
- Previous Object Number
- Other number:
- h2208
- Other number type:
- sort number
- Responsible department/section:
- Contextual Collection
- Right note:
- To encourage the use and reuse of the National Gallery's collection data, they are released under the following dedications and licences: Structured data (as opposed to narrative texts) are released under a Creative Commons Zero dedication (CC0): https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Descriptions, notes and all other narrative text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 licence (CC BY-NC-ND): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/cd4971e2-6297-38a7-8a86-baa50a478d81
Use licence for this record: CC BY
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/cd4971e2-6297-38a7-8a86-baa50a478d81, National Gallery, CC BY
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