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Title
Memorial to Princess Charlotte (1796–1817)
Date
c.1818
Medium
Bath stone
Measurements
H 500 x W (?) x D (?) cm;
Plinth: H (?) x W 80 x D 80 cm
Accession number
BS6_PF_S133
Work type
Obelisk
Owner
Estates and General
Custodian
Estates and General
Work status
extant
Listing status
Grade II (England and Wales)
Access
at all times
Inscription description
inscriptions on a square bronze plaque, with all four corners cut in a small arc: THIS OBELISK WAS ERECTED BY / JACOB WILCOX RICKETTS / TO PERPETUATE THE MEMORY OF / HER ROYAL HIGHNESS / THE MUCH LAMENTED AND BELOVED / PRINCESS CHARLOTTE / OF WALES AND SAXE COBOURG; DAUGHTER OF / HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE REGENT / AND CONSORT TO HIS SERENE HIGHNESS PRINCE LEOPOLD: THIS MOST ILLUSTRIOUS PRINCESS, THE BRIGHTNESS OF WHOSE / CHARACTER SURPASSES ALL TRANSCRIPT; centred beneath this to the left of the depiction of a Roman oil lamp, among copperplate flourishes: WAS / BORN / JANY.6TH. / 1796; on the lamp: AND / DIED / NOVR. 6TH. / 1817; to the right of the lamp in copperplate flourishes: WAS / MARRIED / MAY 2ND. / 1816. / THUS WERE THE VINE AND BRANCH OF TRUE WHIGGISM AND / BRITANNIA’S MOST BLOOMING EXPECTATION, BY ONE / IRRESISTIBLE STROKE, TOGETHER CUT OFF.
Redland Hill, Bristol City
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