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Man on a horse.

            When Queen Victoria unveiled this statute of Prince Albert in 1866, it was greeted, not with the expected cheers, but with a stunned silence, followed by gasps of dismay. The sculptor had made a gross error in the depiction of the horse. Such was his shame that the next day he committed suicide.
That is a favourite story about one of Wolverhampton's best known landmarks. It is not true. No one who knows anything, or even a lot, about horses can find anything wrong with it; contemporary records record nothing but the usual cheers; The sculptor Thorneycroft died in his bed many years later at the age of 70. And the same story is told in many towns of many similar statues, the one at Halifax being a case in point. Other equestrian statues of Albert are at Liverpool and Windsor Park.
Shot taken with an Olympus OM2 on Ilford FP4+, 24mm Zuiko lens and red filter.
   

Taken on: May 10, 2021

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