ART UNION OF LONDON NELSON’S COLUMN TABLE LAMP, DATED 1869 copper, stamped to base ART-UNION OF LONDON, 1868, mounted on a wooden base

(height to fitting 56cm high)

Note: The Nelson Memorial Committee proposed a General Subscription for the purpose of erecting a national Nelson monument in London in 1838. William Railton won the design competition, his Corinthian column decorated with bronze acanthus leaves cast from British cannon was finally completed in 1843, E.H. Baily's 18-foot-high statue of Nelson, facing south, towards the Palace of Westminster, surmounted the 184-foot-high granite column in November of the same year. The bas reliefs of the four battle scenes around the base were added in 1854 and Landseer's lions were placed at the four corners in 1867.