Plith commemorating Sir Edward Cust
Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, RA (Vienna 1834 - London 1890)
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1867
Materials
Ebonised mahogany and pine with bronze
Measurements
490 x 565 x 320 mm
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 435381.2
Summary
Ebonised mahogany and pine with brass plaques, plinth for equestrian statuette of Sir Edward Cust (NT 435381.1), 1867. An ebonised mahogany and pine plinth with brass plaques engraved ‘To General the Honourable Sir Edward Cust GCL KCH from John William Spencer Brownlow Egerton Cust Earl Brownlow 1867’ and ‘The wars and the warriors of the XVII, XVIII and XIX centuries’.
Full description
The plinth was especially designed to support an equestrian bronze statuette of Sir Edward Cust (1794-1878) commissioned by Cust's nephew, John William Spencer Egerton Cust (1842-67). The statuette shows Cust as a 17th-century Cavalier in armour in a witty tribute marking his promotion to General in 1866 and the publication of a his major military histories: Annals of the Wars of the Eighteenth Century (5 vols., 1857) and Lives of the Warriors of the Thirty Years’ War (2 vols., 1865). Alice Rylance-Watson October 2018
Provenance
Acquired 1867, probably by John William Spencer Egerton Cust (1842-67); purchased with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) from Edward John Peregrine Cust, 7th Baron Brownlow, C. St J. (b.1936) in 1984.
Credit line
Belton House, The Brownlow Collection (acquired with the help of the National Heritage Memorial Fund by the National Trust in 1994)
Marks and inscriptions
Front plaque: To General the Honourable Sir Edward Cust GCL KCH from John William Spencer Brownlow Egerton Cust Earl Brownlow 1867 Rear plaque: The wars and the warriors of the XVII, XVIII and XIX centuries
Makers and roles
Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, RA (Vienna 1834 - London 1890), sculptor