DOI Heft:
No. 200 (November, 200)
DOI Artikel:Macklin, Alys Eyre: Alfred Gilbert at Bruges: by Alys Eyre Macklin
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20968#0136
Alfred Gilbert
FRONT CENTRE OF PRESTON MAYORAL CHAIN
BY ALFRED GILBERT
may be unfamiliar with much of Mr. Gilbert's
work, the occasion has been deemed oppor-
tune for reproducing a selection of his more
notable productions. It is much to be regretted
that no complete picture can be obtained of the
Duke of Clarence Memorial in St. George's Chapel,
Windsor, an altar-tomb of which it has been said
that " in old days a work of such magnitude would
have been considered enough for the achievement
of a life-time." Gothic in suggestion, it takes the
form of a kind of shrine. The sarcophagus, with
BACK CENTRE OF PRESTON MAYORAL CHAIN
BY ALFRED GILBERT
a bowed angel holding a crown of immortality over
the head of the recumbent figure and a weeping
Eros at the foot, is high up in the air, and is
THE PRESTON MAYORAL CHAIN
114
Photos by Hollyer)
BY ALFRED GILBERT
FRONT CENTRE OF PRESTON MAYORAL CHAIN
BY ALFRED GILBERT
may be unfamiliar with much of Mr. Gilbert's
work, the occasion has been deemed oppor-
tune for reproducing a selection of his more
notable productions. It is much to be regretted
that no complete picture can be obtained of the
Duke of Clarence Memorial in St. George's Chapel,
Windsor, an altar-tomb of which it has been said
that " in old days a work of such magnitude would
have been considered enough for the achievement
of a life-time." Gothic in suggestion, it takes the
form of a kind of shrine. The sarcophagus, with
BACK CENTRE OF PRESTON MAYORAL CHAIN
BY ALFRED GILBERT
a bowed angel holding a crown of immortality over
the head of the recumbent figure and a weeping
Eros at the foot, is high up in the air, and is
THE PRESTON MAYORAL CHAIN
114
Photos by Hollyer)
BY ALFRED GILBERT