2-982-516 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Models in Inkerman Stone of Monuments in the Crimea and at Scutari, presented to Her Majesty by Capt. Brine, R.E., 1858. 'Captain Brine, of the Royal Engineers, has with great labour and most vigorous fidelity executed in Inkerman stone models of the monuments which have been raised in the Crimea and at Scutari to our officers and soldiers who fell fighting or were cut off by disease during the dread Crimean Campaign. The scale adhered to is half an inch to a foot, except in the cases of Nos. 3, 10, and 14, which are one inch to a foot. This group of model-monuments has been presented, most appropriately, to her Majesty, who, we may be sure, highly prizes the touching memento of gallant men who died in the service of their Queen and country. We reproduce in our pages these mournful memorials of the Crimean War, not inaptly at this period of the year when the Battles of the Alma, of Balaclava, and of Inkerman, at which so many of the heroes fell, have just been commemorated'. From "Illustrated London News", 1858.