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REPLY1850

Chantrey's Sleeping Children

By EDW. HAWKINS.

The following statement may perhaps give to PLECTRUM the information he requires. Dining one day alone with Chantrey, in Jan. 1833, our conversation accidentally turned upon some of his monuments, and amongst other things he told me the circumstances connected with the monument at Lichfield to the two children of Mrs. Robinson. As I was leaving Chantrey, I asked him if I might write down what he had told me; his reply was, "Certainly; indeed I rather wish you would." Before I went to bed I wrote down what I now send you; I afterwards showed it to Chantrey, who acknowledged it to be correct. It…

Topics: Monuments, Art, Victorian Sculpture

Locations: Lichfield, Lichfield Cathedral