The Grand Procession of the Wellington Statue turning down Park Lane, published in the 'Illustrated...

The Wellington Statue is a monument to Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, victor at the Battle of Waterloo and later Prime Minister (1769-1852); The monument shows Wellington mounted on Copenhagen, the famous charger that he had ridden at Waterloo; The statue was sculpted by Matthew Cotes Wyatt (1777-1862) and mostly made from the bronze derived from French cannon captured at Waterloo; The original site of the statue was at Hyde Park Corner but it was moved to Aldershot in 1883; This print shows the statue's journey, on the 29th September 1846, from the foundry to its original site on a carriage drawn by 29 horses;