A PAIR OF STONE FIGURES OF ELIZABETH I AND SIR WALTER RALEIGH, by Charles R. Smith, the Queen standing, looking slightly to her right and wearing a crown, with a ruff to the top of her gown and with beads around her neck, holding a bible in her left hand; Raleigh standing against a coil of rope, looking to his left and wearing a feathered hat and a cape, his left hand resting on his hip, his right hand resting on a cane, each on a square plinth and pedestal base of slab construction (the Queen with some fingers broken, some chips and losses; Raleigh with some chips and losses, all four fingers broken on right hand broken, chips to drapery base, both with slight weathering) Elizabeth I: 68½in. (174cm.) high

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A PAIR OF STONE FIGURES OF ELIZABETH I AND SIR WALTER RALEIGH, by Charles R. Smith, the Queen standing, looking slightly to her right and wearing a crown, with a ruff to the top of her gown and with beads around her neck, holding a bible in her left hand; Raleigh standing against a coil of rope, looking to his left and wearing a feathered hat and a cape, his left hand resting on his hip, his right hand resting on a cane, each on a square plinth and pedestal base of slab construction (the Queen with some fingers broken, some chips and losses; Raleigh with some chips and losses, all four fingers broken on right hand broken, chips to drapery base, both with slight weathering) Elizabeth I: 68½in. (174cm.) high
Raleigh: 68in. (172.8cm.) high
the pedestals: 28in. (71cm.) square; 22¾in. (58cm.) high
Provenance
Mamhead Park, Devon.

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