Design for the monument to Charles Marquis Cornwallis by the sculptor John Charles Felix Rossi.

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1 December 1808

John Charles Felix (1762 - 1839) Rossi,

1 drawing

Pencil drawing on paper mounted on cardboard.

Alternate design for the monument to Charles Marquis Cornwallis in St. Paul's Cathedral. A different version of the monument design was erected at St. Paul's Cathedral in 1811. The designed monument depicts the figure of Cornwallis on a tall fluted column with three allegorical figures below. The column stands on a podium above a rectangular base. The figure of Cornwallis wears a garter, robes, and long cloak and holds a scroll in his right hand. Below left is a seated figure of Britannia with a plumed helmet and spear. To the centre right a standing semi-naked native woman her hands clasped together gathering up her robe. To the far right is a seated male figure leaning his head upon his hand and holding a large vessel in the other. The existing monument in St. Paul’s Cathedral is much the same as the designed monument in the drawing with the exception of the far right figure. An Indian man with his hair coiled up on top of his head, holding a wreath with a figurine of an Indian god fixed to a pot beside him, has replaced the more classical figure of the drawing.

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