Tablet to the Memory of the Officers of Lord Hardinge's Staff Who Fell in the Battles of the Punjab
Created by J.W. Archer
Date: 1851
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Object type: memorial tablet
Material: metal - brass
Technique: low relief
Description: 'The brass is entirely of oriental design, and is composed of - a canopy embattled and worked in sunk panels (by a method of the artist's own production), which contains ornament in geometrical figures and the word "Moodkee" upon a ground of colour. A figure of an angel upon a ground of deep azure and stars displays the inscription. Buttresses, on which are a trophy of British arms, the trumpet, banner worked with the royal arms, &c., and the national flag, on the one side; and on the other a trophy of Sikh arms, containing the peculiar Sikh head-piece with heron plumes, nasal, and coif de maille, minutely worked in double rings, the shield ornamented with tracery in low relief, the tulwar crese, richly-ornamented gauntlet, banner bearing the lion of Scinde, &c. Beneath the inscription, the word "Feroz-sha-hur" in large bright characters upon a ground of scarlet. The base is composed of elephants entwining their trunks with the flowers of the lotus, upon a ground of diaper, bright flowers upon green - a bracket completing the design. The brass is intended to be inlaid in Purbeck stone, and will be sent to India' ('The Builder', 29 March 1851, p. 206).
Inscriptions
Moodkee
Location: canopy
Feroz-sha-hur
Location: beneath above inscription
Citing this record
'Tablet to the Memory of the Officers of Lord Hardinge\'s Staff Who Fell in the Battles of the Punjab', 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=msib5_1245860214, accessed 01 Oct 2023]
