Live Auction 5714Christie's Interiors
A VICTORIAN MARBLE BUST BELIEVED TO BE LORD CARDIGAN
Lot 151

A VICTORIAN MARBLE BUST BELIEVED TO BE LORD CARDIGAN

BY ALEXANDER MACDONALD, 1869

Closed25 May 2010

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GBP 1,500

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A VICTORIAN MARBLE BUST BELIEVED TO BE LORD CARDIGAN
BY ALEXANDER MACDONALD, 1869
Signed 'ALEX.R MACDONALD FECIT. ROMAE 1869'
26½ in. (67 cm.) high

Specialist note

James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, KCB (1797- 1868) commanded the Light Brigade of the British Army during the Crimean War, and was chiefly famous for the disastrous 1857 'charge'