Memorial at University College, Oxford commemorating the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley d. 1822
Location
University College, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
Transcript
'SHELLEY'
Details
Description: Nude statue in white marble of the drowned Shelley on top, supported by bronze winged lions with a mourning muse between them, an apple tree behind her. The whole on a stepped plinth in coloured marble.
Type: Free standing monument
Position: North corner quad
Materials: White, coloured marble; bronze
Artists: E. Onslow Ford, Basil Champneys
Vessel: Don Juan
Type: Free standing monument
Position: North corner quad
Materials: White, coloured marble; bronze
Artists: E. Onslow Ford, Basil Champneys
Vessel: Don Juan
People
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Age:
Date of Death: 8/7/1822
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Poet
Organisation:
Age:
Date of Death: 8/7/1822
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Poet
Organisation:
Extra
Notes: Poet, drowned in yachting accident. Monument commissioned by Lady Shelley for Shelley's grave in Rome, but would have overlapped adjoining plot.
Bibliography: H.W. Janson 'Nineteenth-century Sculpture' (London, 1985) pp. 243-4; Dr Garnet 'The Shelley Monuments', 'Illustrated London News' (May 21 1892) p. 627. Francis Haskell 'The Shelley Memorial', 'Oxford Art Journal' (1978) vol i, pp.3-6.
Bibliography: H.W. Janson 'Nineteenth-century Sculpture' (London, 1985) pp. 243-4; Dr Garnet 'The Shelley Monuments', 'Illustrated London News' (May 21 1892) p. 627. Francis Haskell 'The Shelley Memorial', 'Oxford Art Journal' (1978) vol i, pp.3-6.