2-979-053 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Monument to Sir James Mackintosh, in Westminster Abbey. Theed, sculptor, 1857. 'This handsome testimonial to our distinguished statesman and historian...is to be placed in Westminster Abbey as soon as the tablet is provided with an inscription. The requisite funds were raised by means of subscription of the friends and admirers of Sir James Mackintosh; a committee of noblemen and gentlemen being formed to carry out the work...The monument is about nine feet high, and is of graceful design: it is surmounted by a bust of Mackintosh. Beneath is the genius of British literature lamenting the loss of the historian; and upon the ends of the base, which bears the inscription-table, are sculptured figures of Clemency and Philosophy. Sir James Mackintosh has now been dead nearly a quarter of a century; so that the above memorial must be regarded as a tardy tribute to his attainments and private worth'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.