3-078-074 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Equestrian statue of the Prince Consort in Windsor Park, 1890. Statue of Prince Albert, late husband of Queen Victoria. 'A Jubilee offering from the Women of the British Empire...This fine work of sculpture, by Sir Edgar Boehm, R.A., has been erected, on a pedestal of Aberdeen granite, on Smith's Lawn...It has been constructed by Messrs. Macdonald, of Aberdeen. The monument altogether rises 33 ft. high...The statue faces towards Windsor. The following English dedicatory inscription has been engraved on the west panel: "Albert, Prince Consort: born August 26, 1819; died December 14, 1861. This statue was presented to Victoria, Queen and Empress, as a token of love and loyalty, from the daughters of her Empire, in remembrance of her Jubilee, June 21, 1887." The other panels contain the Latin, Gaelic, and Sanscrit inscriptions. The statue was cast in bronze at the Thames Ditton Foundry. It has cost £10,000, which is only part of the whole sum, nearly £85,000, subscribed for the Women's Jubilee Offering; £70,000 was bestowed, at the Queen's request, on the Association for Providing Sick Nurses for the Poor; and £5000 purchased the diamond necklace accepted by her Majesty'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.