5857. Edwin Landseer to RB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 162.

St. John’s Wood Road

Feby– 8 1867

My dear Browning.

I have the pleasure in thanking you for your most kind note. The Letter I quoted when we met at Ruskins—was written by Higgins [1] to Baron Marochetti. [2]

My share in the Nelson Monument [3] has been so richly rewarded by the valuable praise from the right source that I feel equal to facing injustice from the wrong.

In haste

Yours. very Sincrly

E Landseer [4]

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Library of Congress.

1. Matthew James Higgins (1810–68), writer (see letter 4878, note 4).

2. Carlo Marochetti (1805–67), Italian-born French sculptor.

3. Known as the Nelson Column, a monument in Trafalgar Square commemorating Admiral Lord Nelson (1758–1805), who was killed in the battle of Trafalgar. The column itself was completed in 1842 and Nelson’s statue placed on top the following year. In 1857 Landseer was commissioned to add four enormous lions to the monument. Designed and modelled by him and cast in bronze by Marochetti, they were unveiled ten years later in January 1867.

4. Edwin Henry Landseer (1802–73), painter of animals.

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