3-086-328 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The tombs of statesmen in Westminster Abbey: Spencer Perceval, 1898. 'Not far from the organ screen occur the two remaining monuments figured in our Illustration - those of William Pitt the younger and of Spencer Perceval, First Lord of the Treasury, who was shot by Bellingham in the Lobby of the House of Commons in 1812. Both monuments were designed and executed by the eminent sculptor Sir Richard Westmacott. That to Pitt cost £6300; Perceval's £5250.' From "Illustrated London News", 1898.