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The Copper Horse (King George III Monument)

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Windsor and Maidenhead

Old Windsor

The Copper Horse (King George III Monument)

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The Copper Horse (King George III Monument)

Name: The Copper Horse (King George III Monument)
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Location: Old Windsor, Windsor and Maidenhead, South East England, England, United Kingdom

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1. View of Windsor Castle – Two Brewers Pub loop from Spital

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2. St Mary's Church, Maidenhead loop from Windsor and Eton Central

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3. View of Windsor Castle – Deer Park, Windsor Great Park loop from Blacknest

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Kit P

June 15, 2021

Perched upon Snow Hill at the southern end of the Long Walk from Windsor Castle, sits The Copper Horse. This impressive statue shows King George III atop his stead and was created in 1831.

The statue was inspired by a similar creation of Marcus Aurelius and features George pointing to the castle in the distance. Snow Hill offers fantastic views along the Long Walk avenue and is a waypoint on the Three Castles Path long-distance walking trail.

Edvard

April 28, 2018

The Copper Horse (Monument to George III) by Sir Richard Westmacott (1775-1856) 1824-30; erected October 1831. Bronze, on a rocky platform in Snow Hill, Windsor Great Park, in the grounds of Windsor Castle.
George IV commissioned this statue in memory of his father George III, and it was clearly intended to emulate Étienne-Maurice Falconet's late eighteenth-century equestrian statue of Peter the Great in what is now called Decembrists Square, St Petersburg. In fact, the two works make an interesting contrast.
The French sculptor worked in St Petersburg from 1766-78 and caught the mood of the times, working with "Baroque conventions for movement" (Geese 254). His horse is treading down a snake (variously explained as Sweden, problems, and evils) and rearing, as if to launch itself and its rider forward and upward. The rider himself has his hand emphatically spread as if to shield, quell or subdue. The result is "a sculptural symbol of an entire epoch of Russian history" which "fuses energy and many aspects of the Emperor — Creator, Reformer and Lawmaker — into one" (Popova 36). The English sculptor's horse, on the other hand, looks constrained, almost as if it is performing a dressage exercise, and George III, despite his laurel crown, seems to be trying to grasp something beyond his reach. The rocky bases are very different too. Seen from below, George III's steed seems to be climbing, but it is actually on a level pile of slabs on a hill with other stony outcrops; it is therefore less resonant of difficulties overcome, and carries no suggestion of the wave of the future, to be majestically crested....
victorianweb.org/sculpture/westmacottr/13.html

Isaac Kenyon

June 12, 2020

The hill that the Copper Horse sits on is called "Snow Hill" not often you see snow though!!!

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Location: Old Windsor, Windsor and Maidenhead, South East England, England, United Kingdom

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The Copper Horse (King George III Monument)

1. View of Windsor Castle – Two Brewers Pub loop from Spital

2. St Mary's Church, Maidenhead loop from Windsor and Eton Central

3. View of Windsor Castle – Deer Park, Windsor Great Park loop from Blacknest

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