FLAXMAN JOHN Autograph Letter Signed to Dear Sir

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DISCUSSING SYMBOLISM OF HIS LORD NELSON MONUMENT FLAXMAN, JOHN. Autograph Letter Signed, to "Dear Sir," acknowledging that the Lord Nelson's Monument has been unreasonably delayed and providing a description of the monument. 2 pages, 4to, with integral blank; folds. [London], 22 January 1818

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". . . Brittania is directing the young seamen's attention to their great example Lord Nelson; on the die of the pedestal which supports the Hero's Statue are figures in basso relievo representing, the Frozen Ocean, the German Ocean, the Nile, & the Mediterranean; on the cornice & in a frieze of Laurel leaves are the Words, Copenhagen, Nile, Trafalgar; the British Lion sits on the plinth guarding the Pedestal.
"The height of the Statue is Seven feet Eight inches. The Monument rises Eighteen feet from the pavement."
A portion of this letter is quoted during discussion of the monuments in the south transept in The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul, London, 1900, by Arthur Dimock.