Working Model of Monument now executing in Marble, to the Memory of the late Captain Crozier, RN

Created by Joseph Robinson Kirk

Date: 1856
Usually date of exhibition rather than production

Object class: sculpture

Object type: commemorative monument

Material: stone - marble

Technique: carved

Description: Captain Crozier, 'second in command of the Expedition under Sir J. Franklin, for the discovery of the N.W. Passage'. Accompanied by the following quotation: 'There lies a vessel in that realm of frost,
Not wrecked, not stranded, yet for ever lost;
Morn shall return, and noon, and eve, and night,
Meet here with interchanging shade and light;
But from that barque no timber shall decay,
Of those cold forms, no feature pass away;
Perennial ice around th' encrusted bow,
The empty deck, and shatter'd masts shall grow,
Till from the sun himself the whole be hid,
Or spied beneath a crystal pyramid'

Citing this record

'Working Model of Monument now executing in Marble, to the Memory of the late Captain Crozier, RN', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/object.php?id=msib3_1202829747, accessed 31 Oct 2020]