http://www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/tags/1800s/ Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:55:59 -0700 Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:55:59 -0700 http://www.flickr.com/ http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3431/buddyicons/40262251@N03.jpg?1248155983#40262251@N03 http://www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/tags/1800s/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/8664954826/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/40262251@N03/">raaen99</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/8664954826/" title="The Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8255/8664954826_b9aedd128b_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="The Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra" /></a></p> <p>The Princess Alexandra Statue, located in the Jack Shiel Gardens in the north eastern country town of Alexandra, is the work of English sculptor Charles Summers (1825 – 1878). The Princess Alexandra Statue is made of white Italian marble, and was completed in Rome as part of a commission for Sir William J. Clarke (1831 – 1897) in 1876. Sir William commissioned him to sculpt four large statues in marble of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and the then Prince and Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) for presentation to the Melbourne art gallery. These were completed in 1878. Soon afterwards Charles Summers while on his way to England was taken seriously ill, and died after an operation for acute goitre in Paris. The Princess Alexandra Statue was his last sculpture. <br /> <br /> Originally located in the grounds of the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, the statue was relocated to Alexandra in 1939 where it was installed in the pretty Jack Shiel Gardens where she is surrounded by beds of roses, her favourite flower. In 1994 the statue was unveiled under a new colonnade, which was financed under the Centennial Awards. <br /> <br /> Charles Summer was a regular exhibitor at Royal Academy exhibitions; more than 40 of his works were shown between 1849 and 1876. He was a competent sculptor who also created the figures on the ceiling of the council chamber of Melbourne’s Parliament House, a frieze of putti on the old Bank of New South Wales building (now located at Melbourne University) and the recumbent figure of Lady Macleay in Surrey. However it is the memorial to the explorers Burke and Wills on the corner of Collins and Swanston Streets in Melbourne’s heart that he is best known for.<br /> <br /> Born in 1845, Princess Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia was a Princess of Denmark; one of five sisters (two of whom would also became Queens of Norway and Russia). A beautiful and slender lady with perfect complexion and lovely mannerisms as befitting a queen, Alexandra was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1841 – 1910) the heir apparent of Queen Victoria when the Danish princess was just sixteen. They married eighteen months later in 1863 in the St George Chapel, Windsor Castle, the same year her father became Christian IX of Denmark and her brother, George, was appointed King of Greece. She was Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1901, the longest anyone has ever held that title, and became generally popular; her style of dress and bearing were copied by fashion-conscious women. On the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, Albert Edward became King-Emperor as Edward VII, with Alexandra as Queen-Empress Consort. From Edward's death in 1910 until her own death, she was the Queen Mother. She died of a heart attack just before her 80th birthday in 1925 and was buried in an elaborate tomb next to her husband in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.<br /> <br /> Alexandra is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located at the junction of the Goulburn Valley Highway (B340) and Maroondah Highway (B360), 26 kilometres west of Eildon. The town was settled in the late 1860s, with a Post Office opening on 15 March 1867 (known until 24 April 1867) as Redgate. The town was originally known as Redgate, or Red Gate Diggings. The current name either derives from Alexandra of Denmark (Queen’s Consort to King Edward VII of England) when given a stature of her to the shire; or from three men named Alexander (Alesander, McGregor, Alexander Don, and Alexander Luckie) who discovered gold in the area in 1866. Charles Jones born Herefordshire also discovered Gold on the Luckie Mine in 1866. He bought a Hotel with John Henry Osborne and was the proprietor of the New York and London Hotel Grant Street Alexandra. The railway to Alexandra arrived in the town via Yea from Tallarook in 1909, and closed on November 18, 1978. The Rubicon Tramway connected Alexandra with the village of Rubicon, at the junction of the Rubicon and Royston Rivers. Today many tourists pass through Alexandra on their way to the Mount Buller ski resort from Melbourne. The town contains the Timber Tramway and Museum (located at the Alexandra Railway Station), and the National Trust classified post office and law courts. There is a local market on the second Saturday of each month from September to May, an annual art show at Easter, an agricultural show and rose festival in November, and the annual Truck, Rod and Ute Show in June.</p> Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:55:59 -0700 2013-03-31T15:21:44-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (raaen99) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/8664954826 The Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra <p>The Princess Alexandra Statue, located in the Jack Shiel Gardens in the north eastern country town of Alexandra, is the work of English sculptor Charles Summers (1825 – 1878). The Princess Alexandra Statue is made of white Italian marble, and was completed in Rome as part of a commission for Sir William J. Clarke (1831 – 1897) in 1876. Sir William commissioned him to sculpt four large statues in marble of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and the then Prince and Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) for presentation to the Melbourne art gallery. These were completed in 1878. Soon afterwards Charles Summers while on his way to England was taken seriously ill, and died after an operation for acute goitre in Paris. The Princess Alexandra Statue was his last sculpture. <br /> <br /> Originally located in the grounds of the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, the statue was relocated to Alexandra in 1939 where it was installed in the pretty Jack Shiel Gardens where she is surrounded by beds of roses, her favourite flower. In 1994 the statue was unveiled under a new colonnade, which was financed under the Centennial Awards. <br /> <br /> Charles Summer was a regular exhibitor at Royal Academy exhibitions; more than 40 of his works were shown between 1849 and 1876. He was a competent sculptor who also created the figures on the ceiling of the council chamber of Melbourne’s Parliament House, a frieze of putti on the old Bank of New South Wales building (now located at Melbourne University) and the recumbent figure of Lady Macleay in Surrey. However it is the memorial to the explorers Burke and Wills on the corner of Collins and Swanston Streets in Melbourne’s heart that he is best known for.<br /> <br /> Born in 1845, Princess Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia was a Princess of Denmark; one of five sisters (two of whom would also became Queens of Norway and Russia). A beautiful and slender lady with perfect complexion and lovely mannerisms as befitting a queen, Alexandra was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1841 – 1910) the heir apparent of Queen Victoria when the Danish princess was just sixteen. They married eighteen months later in 1863 in the St George Chapel, Windsor Castle, the same year her father became Christian IX of Denmark and her brother, George, was appointed King of Greece. She was Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1901, the longest anyone has ever held that title, and became generally popular; her style of dress and bearing were copied by fashion-conscious women. On the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, Albert Edward became King-Emperor as Edward VII, with Alexandra as Queen-Empress Consort. From Edward's death in 1910 until her own death, she was the Queen Mother. She died of a heart attack just before her 80th birthday in 1925 and was buried in an elaborate tomb next to her husband in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.<br /> <br /> Alexandra is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located at the junction of the Goulburn Valley Highway (B340) and Maroondah Highway (B360), 26 kilometres west of Eildon. The town was settled in the late 1860s, with a Post Office opening on 15 March 1867 (known until 24 April 1867) as Redgate. The town was originally known as Redgate, or Red Gate Diggings. The current name either derives from Alexandra of Denmark (Queen’s Consort to King Edward VII of England) when given a stature of her to the shire; or from three men named Alexander (Alesander, McGregor, Alexander Don, and Alexander Luckie) who discovered gold in the area in 1866. Charles Jones born Herefordshire also discovered Gold on the Luckie Mine in 1866. He bought a Hotel with John Henry Osborne and was the proprietor of the New York and London Hotel Grant Street Alexandra. The railway to Alexandra arrived in the town via Yea from Tallarook in 1909, and closed on November 18, 1978. The Rubicon Tramway connected Alexandra with the village of Rubicon, at the junction of the Rubicon and Royston Rivers. Today many tourists pass through Alexandra on their way to the Mount Buller ski resort from Melbourne. The town contains the Timber Tramway and Museum (located at the Alexandra Railway Station), and the National Trust classified post office and law courts. There is a local market on the second Saturday of each month from September to May, an annual art show at Easter, an agricultural show and rose festival in November, and the annual Truck, Rod and Ute Show in June.</p> raaen99 sculpture woman tiara art statue female garden town artwork memorial princess seat country 19thcentury 1800s victorian australia victoria pearls queen alexandra victoriana danish figure crown dane commission ruler grounds royalty edwardian nineteenthcentury drapery 1870s commissioned femaleform marblestatue countryvictoria whitemarble femalefigure 1878 countrytown marblesculpture britishroyalfamily femalestatue queenalexandra italianmarble princessalexandra alexandraprincessofwales femalesculpture artistdesigned perkinsst edwardiana provincialvictoria danishroyalfamily perkinsstreet charlessummer kingsconsort alexandraofdenmark englishqueen danishprincess britishruler sirwilliamclarke princessalexandrastatue alexandrastatue princessofwalesstatue princessalexandracarolinemariecharlottelouisejulia sirwilliamjclarke jackshielgardens jackshielmemorialgardens http://www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/8663852831/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/40262251@N03/">raaen99</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/8663852831/" title="The Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8248/8663852831_3381d1b778_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="The Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra" /></a></p> <p>The Princess Alexandra Statue, located in the Jack Shiel Gardens in the north eastern country town of Alexandra, is the work of English sculptor Charles Summers (1825 – 1878). The Princess Alexandra Statue is made of white Italian marble, and was completed in Rome as part of a commission for Sir William J. Clarke (1831 – 1897) in 1876. Sir William commissioned him to sculpt four large statues in marble of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and the then Prince and Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) for presentation to the Melbourne art gallery. These were completed in 1878. Soon afterwards Charles Summers while on his way to England was taken seriously ill, and died after an operation for acute goitre in Paris. The Princess Alexandra Statue was his last sculpture. <br /> <br /> Originally located in the grounds of the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, the statue was relocated to Alexandra in 1939 where it was installed in the pretty Jack Shiel Gardens where she is surrounded by beds of roses, her favourite flower. In 1994 the statue was unveiled under a new colonnade, which was financed under the Centennial Awards. <br /> <br /> Charles Summer was a regular exhibitor at Royal Academy exhibitions; more than 40 of his works were shown between 1849 and 1876. He was a competent sculptor who also created the figures on the ceiling of the council chamber of Melbourne’s Parliament House, a frieze of putti on the old Bank of New South Wales building (now located at Melbourne University) and the recumbent figure of Lady Macleay in Surrey. However it is the memorial to the explorers Burke and Wills on the corner of Collins and Swanston Streets in Melbourne’s heart that he is best known for.<br /> <br /> Born in 1845, Princess Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia was a Princess of Denmark; one of five sisters (two of whom would also became Queens of Norway and Russia). A beautiful and slender lady with perfect complexion and lovely mannerisms as befitting a queen, Alexandra was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1841 – 1910) the heir apparent of Queen Victoria when the Danish princess was just sixteen. They married eighteen months later in 1863 in the St George Chapel, Windsor Castle, the same year her father became Christian IX of Denmark and her brother, George, was appointed King of Greece. She was Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1901, the longest anyone has ever held that title, and became generally popular; her style of dress and bearing were copied by fashion-conscious women. On the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, Albert Edward became King-Emperor as Edward VII, with Alexandra as Queen-Empress Consort. From Edward's death in 1910 until her own death, she was the Queen Mother. She died of a heart attack just before her 80th birthday in 1925 and was buried in an elaborate tomb next to her husband in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.<br /> <br /> Alexandra is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located at the junction of the Goulburn Valley Highway (B340) and Maroondah Highway (B360), 26 kilometres west of Eildon. The town was settled in the late 1860s, with a Post Office opening on 15 March 1867 (known until 24 April 1867) as Redgate. The town was originally known as Redgate, or Red Gate Diggings. The current name either derives from Alexandra of Denmark (Queen’s Consort to King Edward VII of England) when given a stature of her to the shire; or from three men named Alexander (Alesander, McGregor, Alexander Don, and Alexander Luckie) who discovered gold in the area in 1866. Charles Jones born Herefordshire also discovered Gold on the Luckie Mine in 1866. He bought a Hotel with John Henry Osborne and was the proprietor of the New York and London Hotel Grant Street Alexandra. The railway to Alexandra arrived in the town via Yea from Tallarook in 1909, and closed on November 18, 1978. The Rubicon Tramway connected Alexandra with the village of Rubicon, at the junction of the Rubicon and Royston Rivers. Today many tourists pass through Alexandra on their way to the Mount Buller ski resort from Melbourne. The town contains the Timber Tramway and Museum (located at the Alexandra Railway Station), and the National Trust classified post office and law courts. There is a local market on the second Saturday of each month from September to May, an annual art show at Easter, an agricultural show and rose festival in November, and the annual Truck, Rod and Ute Show in June.</p> Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:55:58 -0700 2013-03-31T15:22:41-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (raaen99) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/8663852831 The Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra <p>The Princess Alexandra Statue, located in the Jack Shiel Gardens in the north eastern country town of Alexandra, is the work of English sculptor Charles Summers (1825 – 1878). The Princess Alexandra Statue is made of white Italian marble, and was completed in Rome as part of a commission for Sir William J. Clarke (1831 – 1897) in 1876. Sir William commissioned him to sculpt four large statues in marble of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and the then Prince and Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) for presentation to the Melbourne art gallery. These were completed in 1878. Soon afterwards Charles Summers while on his way to England was taken seriously ill, and died after an operation for acute goitre in Paris. The Princess Alexandra Statue was his last sculpture. <br /> <br /> Originally located in the grounds of the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, the statue was relocated to Alexandra in 1939 where it was installed in the pretty Jack Shiel Gardens where she is surrounded by beds of roses, her favourite flower. In 1994 the statue was unveiled under a new colonnade, which was financed under the Centennial Awards. <br /> <br /> Charles Summer was a regular exhibitor at Royal Academy exhibitions; more than 40 of his works were shown between 1849 and 1876. He was a competent sculptor who also created the figures on the ceiling of the council chamber of Melbourne’s Parliament House, a frieze of putti on the old Bank of New South Wales building (now located at Melbourne University) and the recumbent figure of Lady Macleay in Surrey. However it is the memorial to the explorers Burke and Wills on the corner of Collins and Swanston Streets in Melbourne’s heart that he is best known for.<br /> <br /> Born in 1845, Princess Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia was a Princess of Denmark; one of five sisters (two of whom would also became Queens of Norway and Russia). A beautiful and slender lady with perfect complexion and lovely mannerisms as befitting a queen, Alexandra was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1841 – 1910) the heir apparent of Queen Victoria when the Danish princess was just sixteen. They married eighteen months later in 1863 in the St George Chapel, Windsor Castle, the same year her father became Christian IX of Denmark and her brother, George, was appointed King of Greece. She was Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1901, the longest anyone has ever held that title, and became generally popular; her style of dress and bearing were copied by fashion-conscious women. On the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, Albert Edward became King-Emperor as Edward VII, with Alexandra as Queen-Empress Consort. From Edward's death in 1910 until her own death, she was the Queen Mother. She died of a heart attack just before her 80th birthday in 1925 and was buried in an elaborate tomb next to her husband in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.<br /> <br /> Alexandra is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located at the junction of the Goulburn Valley Highway (B340) and Maroondah Highway (B360), 26 kilometres west of Eildon. The town was settled in the late 1860s, with a Post Office opening on 15 March 1867 (known until 24 April 1867) as Redgate. The town was originally known as Redgate, or Red Gate Diggings. The current name either derives from Alexandra of Denmark (Queen’s Consort to King Edward VII of England) when given a stature of her to the shire; or from three men named Alexander (Alesander, McGregor, Alexander Don, and Alexander Luckie) who discovered gold in the area in 1866. Charles Jones born Herefordshire also discovered Gold on the Luckie Mine in 1866. He bought a Hotel with John Henry Osborne and was the proprietor of the New York and London Hotel Grant Street Alexandra. The railway to Alexandra arrived in the town via Yea from Tallarook in 1909, and closed on November 18, 1978. The Rubicon Tramway connected Alexandra with the village of Rubicon, at the junction of the Rubicon and Royston Rivers. Today many tourists pass through Alexandra on their way to the Mount Buller ski resort from Melbourne. The town contains the Timber Tramway and Museum (located at the Alexandra Railway Station), and the National Trust classified post office and law courts. There is a local market on the second Saturday of each month from September to May, an annual art show at Easter, an agricultural show and rose festival in November, and the annual Truck, Rod and Ute Show in June.</p> raaen99 sculpture woman tiara art statue female garden town artwork memorial princess seat country 19thcentury 1800s victorian australia victoria pearls queen alexandra victoriana danish figure crown dane commission ruler grounds royalty edwardian nineteenthcentury drapery 1870s commissioned femaleform marblestatue countryvictoria whitemarble femalefigure 1878 countrytown marblesculpture britishroyalfamily femalestatue queenalexandra italianmarble princessalexandra alexandraprincessofwales femalesculpture artistdesigned perkinsst edwardiana provincialvictoria danishroyalfamily perkinsstreet charlessummer kingsconsort alexandraofdenmark englishqueen danishprincess britishruler sirwilliamclarke princessalexandrastatue alexandrastatue princessofwalesstatue princessalexandracarolinemariecharlottelouisejulia sirwilliamjclarke jackshielgardens jackshielmemorialgardens http://www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/8664959496/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/40262251@N03/">raaen99</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/8664959496/" title="The Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8251/8664959496_76b5f7a06d_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="The Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra" /></a></p> <p>The Princess Alexandra Statue, located in the Jack Shiel Gardens in the north eastern country town of Alexandra, is the work of English sculptor Charles Summers (1825 – 1878). The Princess Alexandra Statue is made of white Italian marble, and was completed in Rome as part of a commission for Sir William J. Clarke (1831 – 1897) in 1876. Sir William commissioned him to sculpt four large statues in marble of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and the then Prince and Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) for presentation to the Melbourne art gallery. These were completed in 1878. Soon afterwards Charles Summers while on his way to England was taken seriously ill, and died after an operation for acute goitre in Paris. The Princess Alexandra Statue was his last sculpture. <br /> <br /> Originally located in the grounds of the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, the statue was relocated to Alexandra in 1939 where it was installed in the pretty Jack Shiel Gardens where she is surrounded by beds of roses, her favourite flower. In 1994 the statue was unveiled under a new colonnade, which was financed under the Centennial Awards. <br /> <br /> Charles Summer was a regular exhibitor at Royal Academy exhibitions; more than 40 of his works were shown between 1849 and 1876. He was a competent sculptor who also created the figures on the ceiling of the council chamber of Melbourne’s Parliament House, a frieze of putti on the old Bank of New South Wales building (now located at Melbourne University) and the recumbent figure of Lady Macleay in Surrey. However it is the memorial to the explorers Burke and Wills on the corner of Collins and Swanston Streets in Melbourne’s heart that he is best known for.<br /> <br /> Born in 1845, Princess Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia was a Princess of Denmark; one of five sisters (two of whom would also became Queens of Norway and Russia). A beautiful and slender lady with perfect complexion and lovely mannerisms as befitting a queen, Alexandra was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1841 – 1910) the heir apparent of Queen Victoria when the Danish princess was just sixteen. They married eighteen months later in 1863 in the St George Chapel, Windsor Castle, the same year her father became Christian IX of Denmark and her brother, George, was appointed King of Greece. She was Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1901, the longest anyone has ever held that title, and became generally popular; her style of dress and bearing were copied by fashion-conscious women. On the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, Albert Edward became King-Emperor as Edward VII, with Alexandra as Queen-Empress Consort. From Edward's death in 1910 until her own death, she was the Queen Mother. She died of a heart attack just before her 80th birthday in 1925 and was buried in an elaborate tomb next to her husband in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.<br /> <br /> Alexandra is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located at the junction of the Goulburn Valley Highway (B340) and Maroondah Highway (B360), 26 kilometres west of Eildon. The town was settled in the late 1860s, with a Post Office opening on 15 March 1867 (known until 24 April 1867) as Redgate. The town was originally known as Redgate, or Red Gate Diggings. The current name either derives from Alexandra of Denmark (Queen’s Consort to King Edward VII of England) when given a stature of her to the shire; or from three men named Alexander (Alesander, McGregor, Alexander Don, and Alexander Luckie) who discovered gold in the area in 1866. Charles Jones born Herefordshire also discovered Gold on the Luckie Mine in 1866. He bought a Hotel with John Henry Osborne and was the proprietor of the New York and London Hotel Grant Street Alexandra. The railway to Alexandra arrived in the town via Yea from Tallarook in 1909, and closed on November 18, 1978. The Rubicon Tramway connected Alexandra with the village of Rubicon, at the junction of the Rubicon and Royston Rivers. Today many tourists pass through Alexandra on their way to the Mount Buller ski resort from Melbourne. The town contains the Timber Tramway and Museum (located at the Alexandra Railway Station), and the National Trust classified post office and law courts. There is a local market on the second Saturday of each month from September to May, an annual art show at Easter, an agricultural show and rose festival in November, and the annual Truck, Rod and Ute Show in June.</p> Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:56:03 -0700 2013-03-31T15:22:13-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (raaen99) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/8664959496 The Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra <p>The Princess Alexandra Statue, located in the Jack Shiel Gardens in the north eastern country town of Alexandra, is the work of English sculptor Charles Summers (1825 – 1878). The Princess Alexandra Statue is made of white Italian marble, and was completed in Rome as part of a commission for Sir William J. Clarke (1831 – 1897) in 1876. Sir William commissioned him to sculpt four large statues in marble of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and the then Prince and Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) for presentation to the Melbourne art gallery. These were completed in 1878. Soon afterwards Charles Summers while on his way to England was taken seriously ill, and died after an operation for acute goitre in Paris. The Princess Alexandra Statue was his last sculpture. <br /> <br /> Originally located in the grounds of the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, the statue was relocated to Alexandra in 1939 where it was installed in the pretty Jack Shiel Gardens where she is surrounded by beds of roses, her favourite flower. In 1994 the statue was unveiled under a new colonnade, which was financed under the Centennial Awards. <br /> <br /> Charles Summer was a regular exhibitor at Royal Academy exhibitions; more than 40 of his works were shown between 1849 and 1876. He was a competent sculptor who also created the figures on the ceiling of the council chamber of Melbourne’s Parliament House, a frieze of putti on the old Bank of New South Wales building (now located at Melbourne University) and the recumbent figure of Lady Macleay in Surrey. However it is the memorial to the explorers Burke and Wills on the corner of Collins and Swanston Streets in Melbourne’s heart that he is best known for.<br /> <br /> Born in 1845, Princess Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia was a Princess of Denmark; one of five sisters (two of whom would also became Queens of Norway and Russia). A beautiful and slender lady with perfect complexion and lovely mannerisms as befitting a queen, Alexandra was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1841 – 1910) the heir apparent of Queen Victoria when the Danish princess was just sixteen. They married eighteen months later in 1863 in the St George Chapel, Windsor Castle, the same year her father became Christian IX of Denmark and her brother, George, was appointed King of Greece. She was Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1901, the longest anyone has ever held that title, and became generally popular; her style of dress and bearing were copied by fashion-conscious women. On the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, Albert Edward became King-Emperor as Edward VII, with Alexandra as Queen-Empress Consort. From Edward's death in 1910 until her own death, she was the Queen Mother. She died of a heart attack just before her 80th birthday in 1925 and was buried in an elaborate tomb next to her husband in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.<br /> <br /> Alexandra is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located at the junction of the Goulburn Valley Highway (B340) and Maroondah Highway (B360), 26 kilometres west of Eildon. The town was settled in the late 1860s, with a Post Office opening on 15 March 1867 (known until 24 April 1867) as Redgate. The town was originally known as Redgate, or Red Gate Diggings. The current name either derives from Alexandra of Denmark (Queen’s Consort to King Edward VII of England) when given a stature of her to the shire; or from three men named Alexander (Alesander, McGregor, Alexander Don, and Alexander Luckie) who discovered gold in the area in 1866. Charles Jones born Herefordshire also discovered Gold on the Luckie Mine in 1866. He bought a Hotel with John Henry Osborne and was the proprietor of the New York and London Hotel Grant Street Alexandra. The railway to Alexandra arrived in the town via Yea from Tallarook in 1909, and closed on November 18, 1978. The Rubicon Tramway connected Alexandra with the village of Rubicon, at the junction of the Rubicon and Royston Rivers. Today many tourists pass through Alexandra on their way to the Mount Buller ski resort from Melbourne. The town contains the Timber Tramway and Museum (located at the Alexandra Railway Station), and the National Trust classified post office and law courts. There is a local market on the second Saturday of each month from September to May, an annual art show at Easter, an agricultural show and rose festival in November, and the annual Truck, Rod and Ute Show in June.</p> raaen99 sculpture woman tiara art statue female garden town artwork memorial princess seat country 19thcentury 1800s victorian australia victoria pearls queen alexandra victoriana danish figure crown dane commission ruler grounds royalty edwardian nineteenthcentury drapery 1870s commissioned femaleform marblestatue countryvictoria whitemarble femalefigure 1878 countrytown marblesculpture britishroyalfamily femalestatue queenalexandra italianmarble princessalexandra alexandraprincessofwales femalesculpture artistdesigned perkinsst edwardiana provincialvictoria danishroyalfamily perkinsstreet charlessummer kingsconsort alexandraofdenmark englishqueen danishprincess britishruler sirwilliamclarke princessalexandrastatue alexandrastatue princessofwalesstatue princessalexandracarolinemariecharlottelouisejulia sirwilliamjclarke jackshielgardens jackshielmemorialgardens http://www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/8663856315/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/40262251@N03/">raaen99</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/8663856315/" title="The Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8261/8663856315_b3815935aa_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="The Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra" /></a></p> <p>The Princess Alexandra Statue, located in the Jack Shiel Gardens in the north eastern country town of Alexandra, is the work of English sculptor Charles Summers (1825 – 1878). The Princess Alexandra Statue is made of white Italian marble, and was completed in Rome as part of a commission for Sir William J. Clarke (1831 – 1897) in 1876. Sir William commissioned him to sculpt four large statues in marble of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and the then Prince and Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) for presentation to the Melbourne art gallery. These were completed in 1878. Soon afterwards Charles Summers while on his way to England was taken seriously ill, and died after an operation for acute goitre in Paris. The Princess Alexandra Statue was his last sculpture. <br /> <br /> Originally located in the grounds of the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, the statue was relocated to Alexandra in 1939 where it was installed in the pretty Jack Shiel Gardens where she is surrounded by beds of roses, her favourite flower. In 1994 the statue was unveiled under a new colonnade, which was financed under the Centennial Awards. <br /> <br /> Charles Summer was a regular exhibitor at Royal Academy exhibitions; more than 40 of his works were shown between 1849 and 1876. He was a competent sculptor who also created the figures on the ceiling of the council chamber of Melbourne’s Parliament House, a frieze of putti on the old Bank of New South Wales building (now located at Melbourne University) and the recumbent figure of Lady Macleay in Surrey. However it is the memorial to the explorers Burke and Wills on the corner of Collins and Swanston Streets in Melbourne’s heart that he is best known for.<br /> <br /> Born in 1845, Princess Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia was a Princess of Denmark; one of five sisters (two of whom would also became Queens of Norway and Russia). A beautiful and slender lady with perfect complexion and lovely mannerisms as befitting a queen, Alexandra was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1841 – 1910) the heir apparent of Queen Victoria when the Danish princess was just sixteen. They married eighteen months later in 1863 in the St George Chapel, Windsor Castle, the same year her father became Christian IX of Denmark and her brother, George, was appointed King of Greece. She was Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1901, the longest anyone has ever held that title, and became generally popular; her style of dress and bearing were copied by fashion-conscious women. On the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, Albert Edward became King-Emperor as Edward VII, with Alexandra as Queen-Empress Consort. From Edward's death in 1910 until her own death, she was the Queen Mother. She died of a heart attack just before her 80th birthday in 1925 and was buried in an elaborate tomb next to her husband in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.<br /> <br /> Alexandra is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located at the junction of the Goulburn Valley Highway (B340) and Maroondah Highway (B360), 26 kilometres west of Eildon. The town was settled in the late 1860s, with a Post Office opening on 15 March 1867 (known until 24 April 1867) as Redgate. The town was originally known as Redgate, or Red Gate Diggings. The current name either derives from Alexandra of Denmark (Queen’s Consort to King Edward VII of England) when given a stature of her to the shire; or from three men named Alexander (Alesander, McGregor, Alexander Don, and Alexander Luckie) who discovered gold in the area in 1866. Charles Jones born Herefordshire also discovered Gold on the Luckie Mine in 1866. He bought a Hotel with John Henry Osborne and was the proprietor of the New York and London Hotel Grant Street Alexandra. The railway to Alexandra arrived in the town via Yea from Tallarook in 1909, and closed on November 18, 1978. The Rubicon Tramway connected Alexandra with the village of Rubicon, at the junction of the Rubicon and Royston Rivers. Today many tourists pass through Alexandra on their way to the Mount Buller ski resort from Melbourne. The town contains the Timber Tramway and Museum (located at the Alexandra Railway Station), and the National Trust classified post office and law courts. There is a local market on the second Saturday of each month from September to May, an annual art show at Easter, an agricultural show and rose festival in November, and the annual Truck, Rod and Ute Show in June.</p> Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:56:00 -0700 2013-03-31T15:21:20-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (raaen99) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/8663856315 The Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra <p>The Princess Alexandra Statue, located in the Jack Shiel Gardens in the north eastern country town of Alexandra, is the work of English sculptor Charles Summers (1825 – 1878). The Princess Alexandra Statue is made of white Italian marble, and was completed in Rome as part of a commission for Sir William J. Clarke (1831 – 1897) in 1876. Sir William commissioned him to sculpt four large statues in marble of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and the then Prince and Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) for presentation to the Melbourne art gallery. These were completed in 1878. Soon afterwards Charles Summers while on his way to England was taken seriously ill, and died after an operation for acute goitre in Paris. The Princess Alexandra Statue was his last sculpture. <br /> <br /> Originally located in the grounds of the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, the statue was relocated to Alexandra in 1939 where it was installed in the pretty Jack Shiel Gardens where she is surrounded by beds of roses, her favourite flower. In 1994 the statue was unveiled under a new colonnade, which was financed under the Centennial Awards. <br /> <br /> Charles Summer was a regular exhibitor at Royal Academy exhibitions; more than 40 of his works were shown between 1849 and 1876. He was a competent sculptor who also created the figures on the ceiling of the council chamber of Melbourne’s Parliament House, a frieze of putti on the old Bank of New South Wales building (now located at Melbourne University) and the recumbent figure of Lady Macleay in Surrey. However it is the memorial to the explorers Burke and Wills on the corner of Collins and Swanston Streets in Melbourne’s heart that he is best known for.<br /> <br /> Born in 1845, Princess Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia was a Princess of Denmark; one of five sisters (two of whom would also became Queens of Norway and Russia). A beautiful and slender lady with perfect complexion and lovely mannerisms as befitting a queen, Alexandra was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1841 – 1910) the heir apparent of Queen Victoria when the Danish princess was just sixteen. They married eighteen months later in 1863 in the St George Chapel, Windsor Castle, the same year her father became Christian IX of Denmark and her brother, George, was appointed King of Greece. She was Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1901, the longest anyone has ever held that title, and became generally popular; her style of dress and bearing were copied by fashion-conscious women. On the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, Albert Edward became King-Emperor as Edward VII, with Alexandra as Queen-Empress Consort. From Edward's death in 1910 until her own death, she was the Queen Mother. She died of a heart attack just before her 80th birthday in 1925 and was buried in an elaborate tomb next to her husband in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.<br /> <br /> Alexandra is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located at the junction of the Goulburn Valley Highway (B340) and Maroondah Highway (B360), 26 kilometres west of Eildon. The town was settled in the late 1860s, with a Post Office opening on 15 March 1867 (known until 24 April 1867) as Redgate. The town was originally known as Redgate, or Red Gate Diggings. The current name either derives from Alexandra of Denmark (Queen’s Consort to King Edward VII of England) when given a stature of her to the shire; or from three men named Alexander (Alesander, McGregor, Alexander Don, and Alexander Luckie) who discovered gold in the area in 1866. Charles Jones born Herefordshire also discovered Gold on the Luckie Mine in 1866. He bought a Hotel with John Henry Osborne and was the proprietor of the New York and London Hotel Grant Street Alexandra. The railway to Alexandra arrived in the town via Yea from Tallarook in 1909, and closed on November 18, 1978. The Rubicon Tramway connected Alexandra with the village of Rubicon, at the junction of the Rubicon and Royston Rivers. Today many tourists pass through Alexandra on their way to the Mount Buller ski resort from Melbourne. The town contains the Timber Tramway and Museum (located at the Alexandra Railway Station), and the National Trust classified post office and law courts. There is a local market on the second Saturday of each month from September to May, an annual art show at Easter, an agricultural show and rose festival in November, and the annual Truck, Rod and Ute Show in June.</p> raaen99 sculpture woman tiara art statue female garden town artwork memorial princess seat country 19thcentury 1800s victorian australia victoria pearls queen alexandra victoriana danish figure crown dane commission ruler grounds royalty edwardian nineteenthcentury drapery 1870s commissioned femaleform marblestatue countryvictoria whitemarble femalefigure 1878 countrytown marblesculpture britishroyalfamily femalestatue queenalexandra italianmarble princessalexandra alexandraprincessofwales femalesculpture artistdesigned perkinsst edwardiana provincialvictoria danishroyalfamily perkinsstreet charlessummer kingsconsort alexandraofdenmark englishqueen danishprincess britishruler sirwilliamclarke princessalexandrastatue alexandrastatue princessofwalesstatue princessalexandracarolinemariecharlottelouisejulia sirwilliamjclarke jackshielgardens jackshielmemorialgardens http://www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/8664953874/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/40262251@N03/">raaen99</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/8664953874/" title="The Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8261/8664953874_5d93b21731_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="The Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra" /></a></p> <p>The Princess Alexandra Statue, located in the Jack Shiel Gardens in the north eastern country town of Alexandra, is the work of English sculptor Charles Summers (1825 – 1878). The Princess Alexandra Statue is made of white Italian marble, and was completed in Rome as part of a commission for Sir William J. Clarke (1831 – 1897) in 1876. Sir William commissioned him to sculpt four large statues in marble of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and the then Prince and Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) for presentation to the Melbourne art gallery. These were completed in 1878. Soon afterwards Charles Summers while on his way to England was taken seriously ill, and died after an operation for acute goitre in Paris. The Princess Alexandra Statue was his last sculpture. <br /> <br /> Originally located in the grounds of the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, the statue was relocated to Alexandra in 1939 where it was installed in the pretty Jack Shiel Gardens where she is surrounded by beds of roses, her favourite flower. In 1994 the statue was unveiled under a new colonnade, which was financed under the Centennial Awards. <br /> <br /> Charles Summer was a regular exhibitor at Royal Academy exhibitions; more than 40 of his works were shown between 1849 and 1876. He was a competent sculptor who also created the figures on the ceiling of the council chamber of Melbourne’s Parliament House, a frieze of putti on the old Bank of New South Wales building (now located at Melbourne University) and the recumbent figure of Lady Macleay in Surrey. However it is the memorial to the explorers Burke and Wills on the corner of Collins and Swanston Streets in Melbourne’s heart that he is best known for.<br /> <br /> Born in 1845, Princess Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia was a Princess of Denmark; one of five sisters (two of whom would also became Queens of Norway and Russia). A beautiful and slender lady with perfect complexion and lovely mannerisms as befitting a queen, Alexandra was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1841 – 1910) the heir apparent of Queen Victoria when the Danish princess was just sixteen. They married eighteen months later in 1863 in the St George Chapel, Windsor Castle, the same year her father became Christian IX of Denmark and her brother, George, was appointed King of Greece. She was Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1901, the longest anyone has ever held that title, and became generally popular; her style of dress and bearing were copied by fashion-conscious women. On the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, Albert Edward became King-Emperor as Edward VII, with Alexandra as Queen-Empress Consort. From Edward's death in 1910 until her own death, she was the Queen Mother. She died of a heart attack just before her 80th birthday in 1925 and was buried in an elaborate tomb next to her husband in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.<br /> <br /> Alexandra is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located at the junction of the Goulburn Valley Highway (B340) and Maroondah Highway (B360), 26 kilometres west of Eildon. The town was settled in the late 1860s, with a Post Office opening on 15 March 1867 (known until 24 April 1867) as Redgate. The town was originally known as Redgate, or Red Gate Diggings. The current name either derives from Alexandra of Denmark (Queen’s Consort to King Edward VII of England) when given a stature of her to the shire; or from three men named Alexander (Alesander, McGregor, Alexander Don, and Alexander Luckie) who discovered gold in the area in 1866. Charles Jones born Herefordshire also discovered Gold on the Luckie Mine in 1866. He bought a Hotel with John Henry Osborne and was the proprietor of the New York and London Hotel Grant Street Alexandra. The railway to Alexandra arrived in the town via Yea from Tallarook in 1909, and closed on November 18, 1978. The Rubicon Tramway connected Alexandra with the village of Rubicon, at the junction of the Rubicon and Royston Rivers. Today many tourists pass through Alexandra on their way to the Mount Buller ski resort from Melbourne. The town contains the Timber Tramway and Museum (located at the Alexandra Railway Station), and the National Trust classified post office and law courts. There is a local market on the second Saturday of each month from September to May, an annual art show at Easter, an agricultural show and rose festival in November, and the annual Truck, Rod and Ute Show in June.</p> Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:55:57 -0700 2013-03-31T15:20:25-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (raaen99) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/8664953874 The Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra <p>The Princess Alexandra Statue, located in the Jack Shiel Gardens in the north eastern country town of Alexandra, is the work of English sculptor Charles Summers (1825 – 1878). The Princess Alexandra Statue is made of white Italian marble, and was completed in Rome as part of a commission for Sir William J. Clarke (1831 – 1897) in 1876. Sir William commissioned him to sculpt four large statues in marble of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and the then Prince and Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) for presentation to the Melbourne art gallery. These were completed in 1878. Soon afterwards Charles Summers while on his way to England was taken seriously ill, and died after an operation for acute goitre in Paris. The Princess Alexandra Statue was his last sculpture. <br /> <br /> Originally located in the grounds of the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, the statue was relocated to Alexandra in 1939 where it was installed in the pretty Jack Shiel Gardens where she is surrounded by beds of roses, her favourite flower. In 1994 the statue was unveiled under a new colonnade, which was financed under the Centennial Awards. <br /> <br /> Charles Summer was a regular exhibitor at Royal Academy exhibitions; more than 40 of his works were shown between 1849 and 1876. He was a competent sculptor who also created the figures on the ceiling of the council chamber of Melbourne’s Parliament House, a frieze of putti on the old Bank of New South Wales building (now located at Melbourne University) and the recumbent figure of Lady Macleay in Surrey. However it is the memorial to the explorers Burke and Wills on the corner of Collins and Swanston Streets in Melbourne’s heart that he is best known for.<br /> <br /> Born in 1845, Princess Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia was a Princess of Denmark; one of five sisters (two of whom would also became Queens of Norway and Russia). A beautiful and slender lady with perfect complexion and lovely mannerisms as befitting a queen, Alexandra was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1841 – 1910) the heir apparent of Queen Victoria when the Danish princess was just sixteen. They married eighteen months later in 1863 in the St George Chapel, Windsor Castle, the same year her father became Christian IX of Denmark and her brother, George, was appointed King of Greece. She was Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1901, the longest anyone has ever held that title, and became generally popular; her style of dress and bearing were copied by fashion-conscious women. On the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, Albert Edward became King-Emperor as Edward VII, with Alexandra as Queen-Empress Consort. From Edward's death in 1910 until her own death, she was the Queen Mother. She died of a heart attack just before her 80th birthday in 1925 and was buried in an elaborate tomb next to her husband in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.<br /> <br /> Alexandra is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located at the junction of the Goulburn Valley Highway (B340) and Maroondah Highway (B360), 26 kilometres west of Eildon. The town was settled in the late 1860s, with a Post Office opening on 15 March 1867 (known until 24 April 1867) as Redgate. The town was originally known as Redgate, or Red Gate Diggings. The current name either derives from Alexandra of Denmark (Queen’s Consort to King Edward VII of England) when given a stature of her to the shire; or from three men named Alexander (Alesander, McGregor, Alexander Don, and Alexander Luckie) who discovered gold in the area in 1866. Charles Jones born Herefordshire also discovered Gold on the Luckie Mine in 1866. He bought a Hotel with John Henry Osborne and was the proprietor of the New York and London Hotel Grant Street Alexandra. The railway to Alexandra arrived in the town via Yea from Tallarook in 1909, and closed on November 18, 1978. The Rubicon Tramway connected Alexandra with the village of Rubicon, at the junction of the Rubicon and Royston Rivers. Today many tourists pass through Alexandra on their way to the Mount Buller ski resort from Melbourne. The town contains the Timber Tramway and Museum (located at the Alexandra Railway Station), and the National Trust classified post office and law courts. There is a local market on the second Saturday of each month from September to May, an annual art show at Easter, an agricultural show and rose festival in November, and the annual Truck, Rod and Ute Show in June.</p> raaen99 sculpture woman tiara art statue female garden town artwork memorial princess seat country 19thcentury 1800s victorian australia victoria pearls queen alexandra victoriana danish figure crown dane commission ruler grounds royalty edwardian nineteenthcentury drapery 1870s commissioned femaleform marblestatue countryvictoria whitemarble femalefigure 1878 countrytown marblesculpture britishroyalfamily femalestatue queenalexandra italianmarble princessalexandra alexandraprincessofwales femalesculpture artistdesigned perkinsst edwardiana provincialvictoria danishroyalfamily perkinsstreet charlessummer kingsconsort alexandraofdenmark englishqueen danishprincess britishruler sirwilliamclarke princessalexandrastatue alexandrastatue princessofwalesstatue princessalexandracarolinemariecharlottelouisejulia sirwilliamjclarke jackshielgardens jackshielmemorialgardens http://www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/8663852561/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/40262251@N03/">raaen99</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/8663852561/" title="The Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8260/8663852561_c160278310_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="The Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra" /></a></p> <p>The Princess Alexandra Statue, located in the Jack Shiel Gardens in the north eastern country town of Alexandra, is the work of English sculptor Charles Summers (1825 – 1878). The Princess Alexandra Statue is made of white Italian marble, and was completed in Rome as part of a commission for Sir William J. Clarke (1831 – 1897) in 1876. Sir William commissioned him to sculpt four large statues in marble of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and the then Prince and Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) for presentation to the Melbourne art gallery. These were completed in 1878. Soon afterwards Charles Summers while on his way to England was taken seriously ill, and died after an operation for acute goitre in Paris. The Princess Alexandra Statue was his last sculpture. <br /> <br /> Originally located in the grounds of the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, the statue was relocated to Alexandra in 1939 where it was installed in the pretty Jack Shiel Gardens where she is surrounded by beds of roses, her favourite flower. In 1994 the statue was unveiled under a new colonnade, which was financed under the Centennial Awards. <br /> <br /> Charles Summer was a regular exhibitor at Royal Academy exhibitions; more than 40 of his works were shown between 1849 and 1876. He was a competent sculptor who also created the figures on the ceiling of the council chamber of Melbourne’s Parliament House, a frieze of putti on the old Bank of New South Wales building (now located at Melbourne University) and the recumbent figure of Lady Macleay in Surrey. However it is the memorial to the explorers Burke and Wills on the corner of Collins and Swanston Streets in Melbourne’s heart that he is best known for.<br /> <br /> Born in 1845, Princess Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia was a Princess of Denmark; one of five sisters (two of whom would also became Queens of Norway and Russia). A beautiful and slender lady with perfect complexion and lovely mannerisms as befitting a queen, Alexandra was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1841 – 1910) the heir apparent of Queen Victoria when the Danish princess was just sixteen. They married eighteen months later in 1863 in the St George Chapel, Windsor Castle, the same year her father became Christian IX of Denmark and her brother, George, was appointed King of Greece. She was Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1901, the longest anyone has ever held that title, and became generally popular; her style of dress and bearing were copied by fashion-conscious women. On the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, Albert Edward became King-Emperor as Edward VII, with Alexandra as Queen-Empress Consort. From Edward's death in 1910 until her own death, she was the Queen Mother. She died of a heart attack just before her 80th birthday in 1925 and was buried in an elaborate tomb next to her husband in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.<br /> <br /> Alexandra is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located at the junction of the Goulburn Valley Highway (B340) and Maroondah Highway (B360), 26 kilometres west of Eildon. The town was settled in the late 1860s, with a Post Office opening on 15 March 1867 (known until 24 April 1867) as Redgate. The town was originally known as Redgate, or Red Gate Diggings. The current name either derives from Alexandra of Denmark (Queen’s Consort to King Edward VII of England) when given a stature of her to the shire; or from three men named Alexander (Alesander, McGregor, Alexander Don, and Alexander Luckie) who discovered gold in the area in 1866. Charles Jones born Herefordshire also discovered Gold on the Luckie Mine in 1866. He bought a Hotel with John Henry Osborne and was the proprietor of the New York and London Hotel Grant Street Alexandra. The railway to Alexandra arrived in the town via Yea from Tallarook in 1909, and closed on November 18, 1978. The Rubicon Tramway connected Alexandra with the village of Rubicon, at the junction of the Rubicon and Royston Rivers. Today many tourists pass through Alexandra on their way to the Mount Buller ski resort from Melbourne. The town contains the Timber Tramway and Museum (located at the Alexandra Railway Station), and the National Trust classified post office and law courts. There is a local market on the second Saturday of each month from September to May, an annual art show at Easter, an agricultural show and rose festival in November, and the annual Truck, Rod and Ute Show in June.</p> Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:55:58 -0700 2013-03-31T15:21:31-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (raaen99) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/8663852561 The Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra <p>The Princess Alexandra Statue, located in the Jack Shiel Gardens in the north eastern country town of Alexandra, is the work of English sculptor Charles Summers (1825 – 1878). The Princess Alexandra Statue is made of white Italian marble, and was completed in Rome as part of a commission for Sir William J. Clarke (1831 – 1897) in 1876. Sir William commissioned him to sculpt four large statues in marble of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and the then Prince and Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) for presentation to the Melbourne art gallery. These were completed in 1878. Soon afterwards Charles Summers while on his way to England was taken seriously ill, and died after an operation for acute goitre in Paris. The Princess Alexandra Statue was his last sculpture. <br /> <br /> Originally located in the grounds of the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, the statue was relocated to Alexandra in 1939 where it was installed in the pretty Jack Shiel Gardens where she is surrounded by beds of roses, her favourite flower. In 1994 the statue was unveiled under a new colonnade, which was financed under the Centennial Awards. <br /> <br /> Charles Summer was a regular exhibitor at Royal Academy exhibitions; more than 40 of his works were shown between 1849 and 1876. He was a competent sculptor who also created the figures on the ceiling of the council chamber of Melbourne’s Parliament House, a frieze of putti on the old Bank of New South Wales building (now located at Melbourne University) and the recumbent figure of Lady Macleay in Surrey. However it is the memorial to the explorers Burke and Wills on the corner of Collins and Swanston Streets in Melbourne’s heart that he is best known for.<br /> <br /> Born in 1845, Princess Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia was a Princess of Denmark; one of five sisters (two of whom would also became Queens of Norway and Russia). A beautiful and slender lady with perfect complexion and lovely mannerisms as befitting a queen, Alexandra was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1841 – 1910) the heir apparent of Queen Victoria when the Danish princess was just sixteen. They married eighteen months later in 1863 in the St George Chapel, Windsor Castle, the same year her father became Christian IX of Denmark and her brother, George, was appointed King of Greece. She was Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1901, the longest anyone has ever held that title, and became generally popular; her style of dress and bearing were copied by fashion-conscious women. On the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, Albert Edward became King-Emperor as Edward VII, with Alexandra as Queen-Empress Consort. From Edward's death in 1910 until her own death, she was the Queen Mother. She died of a heart attack just before her 80th birthday in 1925 and was buried in an elaborate tomb next to her husband in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.<br /> <br /> Alexandra is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located at the junction of the Goulburn Valley Highway (B340) and Maroondah Highway (B360), 26 kilometres west of Eildon. The town was settled in the late 1860s, with a Post Office opening on 15 March 1867 (known until 24 April 1867) as Redgate. The town was originally known as Redgate, or Red Gate Diggings. The current name either derives from Alexandra of Denmark (Queen’s Consort to King Edward VII of England) when given a stature of her to the shire; or from three men named Alexander (Alesander, McGregor, Alexander Don, and Alexander Luckie) who discovered gold in the area in 1866. Charles Jones born Herefordshire also discovered Gold on the Luckie Mine in 1866. He bought a Hotel with John Henry Osborne and was the proprietor of the New York and London Hotel Grant Street Alexandra. The railway to Alexandra arrived in the town via Yea from Tallarook in 1909, and closed on November 18, 1978. The Rubicon Tramway connected Alexandra with the village of Rubicon, at the junction of the Rubicon and Royston Rivers. Today many tourists pass through Alexandra on their way to the Mount Buller ski resort from Melbourne. The town contains the Timber Tramway and Museum (located at the Alexandra Railway Station), and the National Trust classified post office and law courts. There is a local market on the second Saturday of each month from September to May, an annual art show at Easter, an agricultural show and rose festival in November, and the annual Truck, Rod and Ute Show in June.</p> raaen99 sculpture woman tiara art statue female garden town artwork memorial princess seat country 19thcentury 1800s victorian australia victoria pearls queen alexandra victoriana danish figure crown dane commission ruler grounds royalty edwardian nineteenthcentury drapery 1870s commissioned femaleform marblestatue countryvictoria whitemarble femalefigure 1878 countrytown marblesculpture britishroyalfamily femalestatue queenalexandra italianmarble princessalexandra alexandraprincessofwales femalesculpture artistdesigned perkinsst edwardiana provincialvictoria danishroyalfamily perkinsstreet charlessummer kingsconsort alexandraofdenmark englishqueen danishprincess britishruler sirwilliamclarke princessalexandrastatue alexandrastatue princessofwalesstatue princessalexandracarolinemariecharlottelouisejulia sirwilliamjclarke jackshielgardens jackshielmemorialgardens http://www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/8663858393/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/40262251@N03/">raaen99</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/8663858393/" title="The Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8240/8663858393_3113f5c64b_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="The Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra" /></a></p> <p>The Princess Alexandra Statue, located in the Jack Shiel Gardens in the north eastern country town of Alexandra, is the work of English sculptor Charles Summers (1825 – 1878). The Princess Alexandra Statue is made of white Italian marble, and was completed in Rome as part of a commission for Sir William J. Clarke (1831 – 1897) in 1876. Sir William commissioned him to sculpt four large statues in marble of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and the then Prince and Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) for presentation to the Melbourne art gallery. These were completed in 1878. Soon afterwards Charles Summers while on his way to England was taken seriously ill, and died after an operation for acute goitre in Paris. The Princess Alexandra Statue was his last sculpture. <br /> <br /> Originally located in the grounds of the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, the statue was relocated to Alexandra in 1939 where it was installed in the pretty Jack Shiel Gardens where she is surrounded by beds of roses, her favourite flower. In 1994 the statue was unveiled under a new colonnade, which was financed under the Centennial Awards. <br /> <br /> Charles Summer was a regular exhibitor at Royal Academy exhibitions; more than 40 of his works were shown between 1849 and 1876. He was a competent sculptor who also created the figures on the ceiling of the council chamber of Melbourne’s Parliament House, a frieze of putti on the old Bank of New South Wales building (now located at Melbourne University) and the recumbent figure of Lady Macleay in Surrey. However it is the memorial to the explorers Burke and Wills on the corner of Collins and Swanston Streets in Melbourne’s heart that he is best known for.<br /> <br /> Born in 1845, Princess Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia was a Princess of Denmark; one of five sisters (two of whom would also became Queens of Norway and Russia). A beautiful and slender lady with perfect complexion and lovely mannerisms as befitting a queen, Alexandra was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1841 – 1910) the heir apparent of Queen Victoria when the Danish princess was just sixteen. They married eighteen months later in 1863 in the St George Chapel, Windsor Castle, the same year her father became Christian IX of Denmark and her brother, George, was appointed King of Greece. She was Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1901, the longest anyone has ever held that title, and became generally popular; her style of dress and bearing were copied by fashion-conscious women. On the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, Albert Edward became King-Emperor as Edward VII, with Alexandra as Queen-Empress Consort. From Edward's death in 1910 until her own death, she was the Queen Mother. She died of a heart attack just before her 80th birthday in 1925 and was buried in an elaborate tomb next to her husband in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.<br /> <br /> Alexandra is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located at the junction of the Goulburn Valley Highway (B340) and Maroondah Highway (B360), 26 kilometres west of Eildon. The town was settled in the late 1860s, with a Post Office opening on 15 March 1867 (known until 24 April 1867) as Redgate. The town was originally known as Redgate, or Red Gate Diggings. The current name either derives from Alexandra of Denmark (Queen’s Consort to King Edward VII of England) when given a stature of her to the shire; or from three men named Alexander (Alesander, McGregor, Alexander Don, and Alexander Luckie) who discovered gold in the area in 1866. Charles Jones born Herefordshire also discovered Gold on the Luckie Mine in 1866. He bought a Hotel with John Henry Osborne and was the proprietor of the New York and London Hotel Grant Street Alexandra. The railway to Alexandra arrived in the town via Yea from Tallarook in 1909, and closed on November 18, 1978. The Rubicon Tramway connected Alexandra with the village of Rubicon, at the junction of the Rubicon and Royston Rivers. Today many tourists pass through Alexandra on their way to the Mount Buller ski resort from Melbourne. The town contains the Timber Tramway and Museum (located at the Alexandra Railway Station), and the National Trust classified post office and law courts. There is a local market on the second Saturday of each month from September to May, an annual art show at Easter, an agricultural show and rose festival in November, and the annual Truck, Rod and Ute Show in June.</p> Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:56:02 -0700 2013-03-31T16:23:29-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (raaen99) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/8663858393 The Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra <p>The Princess Alexandra Statue, located in the Jack Shiel Gardens in the north eastern country town of Alexandra, is the work of English sculptor Charles Summers (1825 – 1878). The Princess Alexandra Statue is made of white Italian marble, and was completed in Rome as part of a commission for Sir William J. Clarke (1831 – 1897) in 1876. Sir William commissioned him to sculpt four large statues in marble of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and the then Prince and Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) for presentation to the Melbourne art gallery. These were completed in 1878. Soon afterwards Charles Summers while on his way to England was taken seriously ill, and died after an operation for acute goitre in Paris. The Princess Alexandra Statue was his last sculpture. <br /> <br /> Originally located in the grounds of the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, the statue was relocated to Alexandra in 1939 where it was installed in the pretty Jack Shiel Gardens where she is surrounded by beds of roses, her favourite flower. In 1994 the statue was unveiled under a new colonnade, which was financed under the Centennial Awards. <br /> <br /> Charles Summer was a regular exhibitor at Royal Academy exhibitions; more than 40 of his works were shown between 1849 and 1876. He was a competent sculptor who also created the figures on the ceiling of the council chamber of Melbourne’s Parliament House, a frieze of putti on the old Bank of New South Wales building (now located at Melbourne University) and the recumbent figure of Lady Macleay in Surrey. However it is the memorial to the explorers Burke and Wills on the corner of Collins and Swanston Streets in Melbourne’s heart that he is best known for.<br /> <br /> Born in 1845, Princess Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia was a Princess of Denmark; one of five sisters (two of whom would also became Queens of Norway and Russia). A beautiful and slender lady with perfect complexion and lovely mannerisms as befitting a queen, Alexandra was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1841 – 1910) the heir apparent of Queen Victoria when the Danish princess was just sixteen. They married eighteen months later in 1863 in the St George Chapel, Windsor Castle, the same year her father became Christian IX of Denmark and her brother, George, was appointed King of Greece. She was Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1901, the longest anyone has ever held that title, and became generally popular; her style of dress and bearing were copied by fashion-conscious women. On the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, Albert Edward became King-Emperor as Edward VII, with Alexandra as Queen-Empress Consort. From Edward's death in 1910 until her own death, she was the Queen Mother. She died of a heart attack just before her 80th birthday in 1925 and was buried in an elaborate tomb next to her husband in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.<br /> <br /> Alexandra is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located at the junction of the Goulburn Valley Highway (B340) and Maroondah Highway (B360), 26 kilometres west of Eildon. The town was settled in the late 1860s, with a Post Office opening on 15 March 1867 (known until 24 April 1867) as Redgate. The town was originally known as Redgate, or Red Gate Diggings. The current name either derives from Alexandra of Denmark (Queen’s Consort to King Edward VII of England) when given a stature of her to the shire; or from three men named Alexander (Alesander, McGregor, Alexander Don, and Alexander Luckie) who discovered gold in the area in 1866. Charles Jones born Herefordshire also discovered Gold on the Luckie Mine in 1866. He bought a Hotel with John Henry Osborne and was the proprietor of the New York and London Hotel Grant Street Alexandra. The railway to Alexandra arrived in the town via Yea from Tallarook in 1909, and closed on November 18, 1978. The Rubicon Tramway connected Alexandra with the village of Rubicon, at the junction of the Rubicon and Royston Rivers. Today many tourists pass through Alexandra on their way to the Mount Buller ski resort from Melbourne. The town contains the Timber Tramway and Museum (located at the Alexandra Railway Station), and the National Trust classified post office and law courts. There is a local market on the second Saturday of each month from September to May, an annual art show at Easter, an agricultural show and rose festival in November, and the annual Truck, Rod and Ute Show in June.</p> raaen99 sculpture woman tiara art statue female garden town artwork memorial princess seat country 19thcentury 1800s victorian australia victoria pearls queen alexandra victoriana danish figure crown dane commission ruler grounds royalty edwardian nineteenthcentury drapery 1870s commissioned femaleform marblestatue countryvictoria whitemarble femalefigure 1878 countrytown marblesculpture britishroyalfamily femalestatue queenalexandra italianmarble princessalexandra alexandraprincessofwales femalesculpture artistdesigned perkinsst edwardiana provincialvictoria danishroyalfamily perkinsstreet charlessummer kingsconsort alexandraofdenmark englishqueen danishprincess britishruler sirwilliamclarke princessalexandrastatue alexandrastatue princessofwalesstatue princessalexandracarolinemariecharlottelouisejulia sirwilliamjclarke jackshielgardens jackshielmemorialgardens http://www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/8663852685/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/40262251@N03/">raaen99</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/8663852685/" title="Detail of the Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8239/8663852685_87e8d30796_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="Detail of the Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra" /></a></p> <p>The Princess Alexandra Statue, located in the Jack Shiel Gardens in the north eastern country town of Alexandra, is the work of English sculptor Charles Summers (1825 – 1878). The Princess Alexandra Statue is made of white Italian marble, and was completed in Rome as part of a commission for Sir William J. Clarke (1831 – 1897) in 1876. Sir William commissioned him to sculpt four large statues in marble of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and the then Prince and Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) for presentation to the Melbourne art gallery. These were completed in 1878. Soon afterwards Charles Summers while on his way to England was taken seriously ill, and died after an operation for acute goitre in Paris. The Princess Alexandra Statue was his last sculpture. <br /> <br /> Originally located in the grounds of the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, the statue was relocated to Alexandra in 1939 where it was installed in the pretty Jack Shiel Gardens where she is surrounded by beds of roses, her favourite flower. In 1994 the statue was unveiled under a new colonnade, which was financed under the Centennial Awards. <br /> <br /> Charles Summer was a regular exhibitor at Royal Academy exhibitions; more than 40 of his works were shown between 1849 and 1876. He was a competent sculptor who also created the figures on the ceiling of the council chamber of Melbourne’s Parliament House, a frieze of putti on the old Bank of New South Wales building (now located at Melbourne University) and the recumbent figure of Lady Macleay in Surrey. However it is the memorial to the explorers Burke and Wills on the corner of Collins and Swanston Streets in Melbourne’s heart that he is best known for.<br /> <br /> Born in 1845, Princess Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia was a Princess of Denmark; one of five sisters (two of whom would also became Queens of Norway and Russia). A beautiful and slender lady with perfect complexion and lovely mannerisms as befitting a queen, Alexandra was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1841 – 1910) the heir apparent of Queen Victoria when the Danish princess was just sixteen. They married eighteen months later in 1863 in the St George Chapel, Windsor Castle, the same year her father became Christian IX of Denmark and her brother, George, was appointed King of Greece. She was Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1901, the longest anyone has ever held that title, and became generally popular; her style of dress and bearing were copied by fashion-conscious women. On the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, Albert Edward became King-Emperor as Edward VII, with Alexandra as Queen-Empress Consort. From Edward's death in 1910 until her own death, she was the Queen Mother. She died of a heart attack just before her 80th birthday in 1925 and was buried in an elaborate tomb next to her husband in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.<br /> <br /> Alexandra is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located at the junction of the Goulburn Valley Highway (B340) and Maroondah Highway (B360), 26 kilometres west of Eildon. The town was settled in the late 1860s, with a Post Office opening on 15 March 1867 (known until 24 April 1867) as Redgate. The town was originally known as Redgate, or Red Gate Diggings. The current name either derives from Alexandra of Denmark (Queen’s Consort to King Edward VII of England) when given a stature of her to the shire; or from three men named Alexander (Alesander, McGregor, Alexander Don, and Alexander Luckie) who discovered gold in the area in 1866. Charles Jones born Herefordshire also discovered Gold on the Luckie Mine in 1866. He bought a Hotel with John Henry Osborne and was the proprietor of the New York and London Hotel Grant Street Alexandra. The railway to Alexandra arrived in the town via Yea from Tallarook in 1909, and closed on November 18, 1978. The Rubicon Tramway connected Alexandra with the village of Rubicon, at the junction of the Rubicon and Royston Rivers. Today many tourists pass through Alexandra on their way to the Mount Buller ski resort from Melbourne. The town contains the Timber Tramway and Museum (located at the Alexandra Railway Station), and the National Trust classified post office and law courts. There is a local market on the second Saturday of each month from September to May, an annual art show at Easter, an agricultural show and rose festival in November, and the annual Truck, Rod and Ute Show in June.</p> Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:55:59 -0700 2013-03-31T15:22:35-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (raaen99) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/8663852685 Detail of the Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra <p>The Princess Alexandra Statue, located in the Jack Shiel Gardens in the north eastern country town of Alexandra, is the work of English sculptor Charles Summers (1825 – 1878). The Princess Alexandra Statue is made of white Italian marble, and was completed in Rome as part of a commission for Sir William J. Clarke (1831 – 1897) in 1876. Sir William commissioned him to sculpt four large statues in marble of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and the then Prince and Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) for presentation to the Melbourne art gallery. These were completed in 1878. Soon afterwards Charles Summers while on his way to England was taken seriously ill, and died after an operation for acute goitre in Paris. The Princess Alexandra Statue was his last sculpture. <br /> <br /> Originally located in the grounds of the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, the statue was relocated to Alexandra in 1939 where it was installed in the pretty Jack Shiel Gardens where she is surrounded by beds of roses, her favourite flower. In 1994 the statue was unveiled under a new colonnade, which was financed under the Centennial Awards. <br /> <br /> Charles Summer was a regular exhibitor at Royal Academy exhibitions; more than 40 of his works were shown between 1849 and 1876. He was a competent sculptor who also created the figures on the ceiling of the council chamber of Melbourne’s Parliament House, a frieze of putti on the old Bank of New South Wales building (now located at Melbourne University) and the recumbent figure of Lady Macleay in Surrey. However it is the memorial to the explorers Burke and Wills on the corner of Collins and Swanston Streets in Melbourne’s heart that he is best known for.<br /> <br /> Born in 1845, Princess Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia was a Princess of Denmark; one of five sisters (two of whom would also became Queens of Norway and Russia). A beautiful and slender lady with perfect complexion and lovely mannerisms as befitting a queen, Alexandra was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1841 – 1910) the heir apparent of Queen Victoria when the Danish princess was just sixteen. They married eighteen months later in 1863 in the St George Chapel, Windsor Castle, the same year her father became Christian IX of Denmark and her brother, George, was appointed King of Greece. She was Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1901, the longest anyone has ever held that title, and became generally popular; her style of dress and bearing were copied by fashion-conscious women. On the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, Albert Edward became King-Emperor as Edward VII, with Alexandra as Queen-Empress Consort. From Edward's death in 1910 until her own death, she was the Queen Mother. She died of a heart attack just before her 80th birthday in 1925 and was buried in an elaborate tomb next to her husband in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.<br /> <br /> Alexandra is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located at the junction of the Goulburn Valley Highway (B340) and Maroondah Highway (B360), 26 kilometres west of Eildon. The town was settled in the late 1860s, with a Post Office opening on 15 March 1867 (known until 24 April 1867) as Redgate. The town was originally known as Redgate, or Red Gate Diggings. The current name either derives from Alexandra of Denmark (Queen’s Consort to King Edward VII of England) when given a stature of her to the shire; or from three men named Alexander (Alesander, McGregor, Alexander Don, and Alexander Luckie) who discovered gold in the area in 1866. Charles Jones born Herefordshire also discovered Gold on the Luckie Mine in 1866. He bought a Hotel with John Henry Osborne and was the proprietor of the New York and London Hotel Grant Street Alexandra. The railway to Alexandra arrived in the town via Yea from Tallarook in 1909, and closed on November 18, 1978. The Rubicon Tramway connected Alexandra with the village of Rubicon, at the junction of the Rubicon and Royston Rivers. Today many tourists pass through Alexandra on their way to the Mount Buller ski resort from Melbourne. The town contains the Timber Tramway and Museum (located at the Alexandra Railway Station), and the National Trust classified post office and law courts. There is a local market on the second Saturday of each month from September to May, an annual art show at Easter, an agricultural show and rose festival in November, and the annual Truck, Rod and Ute Show in June.</p> raaen99 sculpture woman tiara art statue female garden town artwork memorial princess seat country 19thcentury 1800s victorian australia victoria pearls queen alexandra victoriana danish figure crown dane commission ruler grounds royalty edwardian nineteenthcentury drapery 1870s commissioned femaleform marblestatue countryvictoria whitemarble femalefigure 1878 countrytown marblesculpture britishroyalfamily femalestatue queenalexandra italianmarble princessalexandra alexandraprincessofwales femalesculpture artistdesigned perkinsst edwardiana provincialvictoria danishroyalfamily perkinsstreet charlessummer kingsconsort alexandraofdenmark englishqueen danishprincess britishruler sirwilliamclarke princessalexandrastatue alexandrastatue princessofwalesstatue princessalexandracarolinemariecharlottelouisejulia sirwilliamjclarke jackshielgardens jackshielmemorialgardens http://www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/8663856259/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/40262251@N03/">raaen99</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/8663856259/" title="Detail of the Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8242/8663856259_08f9dd8cc3_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="Detail of the Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra" /></a></p> <p>The Princess Alexandra Statue, located in the Jack Shiel Gardens in the north eastern country town of Alexandra, is the work of English sculptor Charles Summers (1825 – 1878). The Princess Alexandra Statue is made of white Italian marble, and was completed in Rome as part of a commission for Sir William J. Clarke (1831 – 1897) in 1876. Sir William commissioned him to sculpt four large statues in marble of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and the then Prince and Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) for presentation to the Melbourne art gallery. These were completed in 1878. Soon afterwards Charles Summers while on his way to England was taken seriously ill, and died after an operation for acute goitre in Paris. The Princess Alexandra Statue was his last sculpture. <br /> <br /> Originally located in the grounds of the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, the statue was relocated to Alexandra in 1939 where it was installed in the pretty Jack Shiel Gardens where she is surrounded by beds of roses, her favourite flower. In 1994 the statue was unveiled under a new colonnade, which was financed under the Centennial Awards. <br /> <br /> Charles Summer was a regular exhibitor at Royal Academy exhibitions; more than 40 of his works were shown between 1849 and 1876. He was a competent sculptor who also created the figures on the ceiling of the council chamber of Melbourne’s Parliament House, a frieze of putti on the old Bank of New South Wales building (now located at Melbourne University) and the recumbent figure of Lady Macleay in Surrey. However it is the memorial to the explorers Burke and Wills on the corner of Collins and Swanston Streets in Melbourne’s heart that he is best known for.<br /> <br /> Born in 1845, Princess Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia was a Princess of Denmark; one of five sisters (two of whom would also became Queens of Norway and Russia). A beautiful and slender lady with perfect complexion and lovely mannerisms as befitting a queen, Alexandra was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1841 – 1910) the heir apparent of Queen Victoria when the Danish princess was just sixteen. They married eighteen months later in 1863 in the St George Chapel, Windsor Castle, the same year her father became Christian IX of Denmark and her brother, George, was appointed King of Greece. She was Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1901, the longest anyone has ever held that title, and became generally popular; her style of dress and bearing were copied by fashion-conscious women. On the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, Albert Edward became King-Emperor as Edward VII, with Alexandra as Queen-Empress Consort. From Edward's death in 1910 until her own death, she was the Queen Mother. She died of a heart attack just before her 80th birthday in 1925 and was buried in an elaborate tomb next to her husband in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.<br /> <br /> Alexandra is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located at the junction of the Goulburn Valley Highway (B340) and Maroondah Highway (B360), 26 kilometres west of Eildon. The town was settled in the late 1860s, with a Post Office opening on 15 March 1867 (known until 24 April 1867) as Redgate. The town was originally known as Redgate, or Red Gate Diggings. The current name either derives from Alexandra of Denmark (Queen’s Consort to King Edward VII of England) when given a stature of her to the shire; or from three men named Alexander (Alesander, McGregor, Alexander Don, and Alexander Luckie) who discovered gold in the area in 1866. Charles Jones born Herefordshire also discovered Gold on the Luckie Mine in 1866. He bought a Hotel with John Henry Osborne and was the proprietor of the New York and London Hotel Grant Street Alexandra. The railway to Alexandra arrived in the town via Yea from Tallarook in 1909, and closed on November 18, 1978. The Rubicon Tramway connected Alexandra with the village of Rubicon, at the junction of the Rubicon and Royston Rivers. Today many tourists pass through Alexandra on their way to the Mount Buller ski resort from Melbourne. The town contains the Timber Tramway and Museum (located at the Alexandra Railway Station), and the National Trust classified post office and law courts. There is a local market on the second Saturday of each month from September to May, an annual art show at Easter, an agricultural show and rose festival in November, and the annual Truck, Rod and Ute Show in June.</p> Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:56:01 -0700 2013-03-31T15:22:28-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (raaen99) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/8663856259 Detail of the Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra <p>The Princess Alexandra Statue, located in the Jack Shiel Gardens in the north eastern country town of Alexandra, is the work of English sculptor Charles Summers (1825 – 1878). The Princess Alexandra Statue is made of white Italian marble, and was completed in Rome as part of a commission for Sir William J. Clarke (1831 – 1897) in 1876. Sir William commissioned him to sculpt four large statues in marble of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and the then Prince and Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) for presentation to the Melbourne art gallery. These were completed in 1878. Soon afterwards Charles Summers while on his way to England was taken seriously ill, and died after an operation for acute goitre in Paris. The Princess Alexandra Statue was his last sculpture. <br /> <br /> Originally located in the grounds of the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, the statue was relocated to Alexandra in 1939 where it was installed in the pretty Jack Shiel Gardens where she is surrounded by beds of roses, her favourite flower. In 1994 the statue was unveiled under a new colonnade, which was financed under the Centennial Awards. <br /> <br /> Charles Summer was a regular exhibitor at Royal Academy exhibitions; more than 40 of his works were shown between 1849 and 1876. He was a competent sculptor who also created the figures on the ceiling of the council chamber of Melbourne’s Parliament House, a frieze of putti on the old Bank of New South Wales building (now located at Melbourne University) and the recumbent figure of Lady Macleay in Surrey. However it is the memorial to the explorers Burke and Wills on the corner of Collins and Swanston Streets in Melbourne’s heart that he is best known for.<br /> <br /> Born in 1845, Princess Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia was a Princess of Denmark; one of five sisters (two of whom would also became Queens of Norway and Russia). A beautiful and slender lady with perfect complexion and lovely mannerisms as befitting a queen, Alexandra was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1841 – 1910) the heir apparent of Queen Victoria when the Danish princess was just sixteen. They married eighteen months later in 1863 in the St George Chapel, Windsor Castle, the same year her father became Christian IX of Denmark and her brother, George, was appointed King of Greece. She was Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1901, the longest anyone has ever held that title, and became generally popular; her style of dress and bearing were copied by fashion-conscious women. On the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, Albert Edward became King-Emperor as Edward VII, with Alexandra as Queen-Empress Consort. From Edward's death in 1910 until her own death, she was the Queen Mother. She died of a heart attack just before her 80th birthday in 1925 and was buried in an elaborate tomb next to her husband in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.<br /> <br /> Alexandra is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located at the junction of the Goulburn Valley Highway (B340) and Maroondah Highway (B360), 26 kilometres west of Eildon. The town was settled in the late 1860s, with a Post Office opening on 15 March 1867 (known until 24 April 1867) as Redgate. The town was originally known as Redgate, or Red Gate Diggings. The current name either derives from Alexandra of Denmark (Queen’s Consort to King Edward VII of England) when given a stature of her to the shire; or from three men named Alexander (Alesander, McGregor, Alexander Don, and Alexander Luckie) who discovered gold in the area in 1866. Charles Jones born Herefordshire also discovered Gold on the Luckie Mine in 1866. He bought a Hotel with John Henry Osborne and was the proprietor of the New York and London Hotel Grant Street Alexandra. The railway to Alexandra arrived in the town via Yea from Tallarook in 1909, and closed on November 18, 1978. The Rubicon Tramway connected Alexandra with the village of Rubicon, at the junction of the Rubicon and Royston Rivers. Today many tourists pass through Alexandra on their way to the Mount Buller ski resort from Melbourne. The town contains the Timber Tramway and Museum (located at the Alexandra Railway Station), and the National Trust classified post office and law courts. There is a local market on the second Saturday of each month from September to May, an annual art show at Easter, an agricultural show and rose festival in November, and the annual Truck, Rod and Ute Show in June.</p> raaen99 princessalexandrastatue alexandrastatue princessofwalesstatue alexandraofdenmark queenalexandra princessalexandra alexandraprincessofwales kingsconsort queen ruler britishruler danish dane princess statue marblestatue femalestatue englishqueen danishprincess whitemarble italianmarble sculpture marblesculpture memorial seat crown tiara pearls drapery femaleform femalesculpture female woman royalty britishroyalfamily danishroyalfamily princessalexandracarolinemariecharlottelouisejulia sirwilliamjclarke sirwilliamclarke charlessummer 1878 1800s 1870s victorian victoriana edwardian edwardiana nineteenthcentury 19thcentury figure femalefigure art artwork artistdesigned commissioned commission alexandra jackshielgardens jackshielmemorialgardens victoria australia perkinsst perkinsstreet countryvictoria provincialvictoria countrytown town country garden grounds http://www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/8663856757/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/40262251@N03/">raaen99</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/8663856757/" title="The Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8251/8663856757_599a7c248b_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="The Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra" /></a></p> <p>The Princess Alexandra Statue, located in the Jack Shiel Gardens in the north eastern country town of Alexandra, is the work of English sculptor Charles Summers (1825 – 1878). The Princess Alexandra Statue is made of white Italian marble, and was completed in Rome as part of a commission for Sir William J. Clarke (1831 – 1897) in 1876. Sir William commissioned him to sculpt four large statues in marble of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and the then Prince and Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) for presentation to the Melbourne art gallery. These were completed in 1878. Soon afterwards Charles Summers while on his way to England was taken seriously ill, and died after an operation for acute goitre in Paris. The Princess Alexandra Statue was his last sculpture. <br /> <br /> Originally located in the grounds of the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, the statue was relocated to Alexandra in 1939 where it was installed in the pretty Jack Shiel Gardens where she is surrounded by beds of roses, her favourite flower. In 1994 the statue was unveiled under a new colonnade, which was financed under the Centennial Awards. <br /> <br /> Charles Summer was a regular exhibitor at Royal Academy exhibitions; more than 40 of his works were shown between 1849 and 1876. He was a competent sculptor who also created the figures on the ceiling of the council chamber of Melbourne’s Parliament House, a frieze of putti on the old Bank of New South Wales building (now located at Melbourne University) and the recumbent figure of Lady Macleay in Surrey. However it is the memorial to the explorers Burke and Wills on the corner of Collins and Swanston Streets in Melbourne’s heart that he is best known for.<br /> <br /> Born in 1845, Princess Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia was a Princess of Denmark; one of five sisters (two of whom would also became Queens of Norway and Russia). A beautiful and slender lady with perfect complexion and lovely mannerisms as befitting a queen, Alexandra was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1841 – 1910) the heir apparent of Queen Victoria when the Danish princess was just sixteen. They married eighteen months later in 1863 in the St George Chapel, Windsor Castle, the same year her father became Christian IX of Denmark and her brother, George, was appointed King of Greece. She was Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1901, the longest anyone has ever held that title, and became generally popular; her style of dress and bearing were copied by fashion-conscious women. On the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, Albert Edward became King-Emperor as Edward VII, with Alexandra as Queen-Empress Consort. From Edward's death in 1910 until her own death, she was the Queen Mother. She died of a heart attack just before her 80th birthday in 1925 and was buried in an elaborate tomb next to her husband in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.<br /> <br /> Alexandra is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located at the junction of the Goulburn Valley Highway (B340) and Maroondah Highway (B360), 26 kilometres west of Eildon. The town was settled in the late 1860s, with a Post Office opening on 15 March 1867 (known until 24 April 1867) as Redgate. The town was originally known as Redgate, or Red Gate Diggings. The current name either derives from Alexandra of Denmark (Queen’s Consort to King Edward VII of England) when given a stature of her to the shire; or from three men named Alexander (Alesander, McGregor, Alexander Don, and Alexander Luckie) who discovered gold in the area in 1866. Charles Jones born Herefordshire also discovered Gold on the Luckie Mine in 1866. He bought a Hotel with John Henry Osborne and was the proprietor of the New York and London Hotel Grant Street Alexandra. The railway to Alexandra arrived in the town via Yea from Tallarook in 1909, and closed on November 18, 1978. The Rubicon Tramway connected Alexandra with the village of Rubicon, at the junction of the Rubicon and Royston Rivers. Today many tourists pass through Alexandra on their way to the Mount Buller ski resort from Melbourne. The town contains the Timber Tramway and Museum (located at the Alexandra Railway Station), and the National Trust classified post office and law courts. There is a local market on the second Saturday of each month from September to May, an annual art show at Easter, an agricultural show and rose festival in November, and the annual Truck, Rod and Ute Show in June.</p> Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:55:59 -0700 2013-03-31T15:21:02-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (raaen99) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/8663856757 The Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra <p>The Princess Alexandra Statue, located in the Jack Shiel Gardens in the north eastern country town of Alexandra, is the work of English sculptor Charles Summers (1825 – 1878). The Princess Alexandra Statue is made of white Italian marble, and was completed in Rome as part of a commission for Sir William J. Clarke (1831 – 1897) in 1876. Sir William commissioned him to sculpt four large statues in marble of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and the then Prince and Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) for presentation to the Melbourne art gallery. These were completed in 1878. Soon afterwards Charles Summers while on his way to England was taken seriously ill, and died after an operation for acute goitre in Paris. The Princess Alexandra Statue was his last sculpture. <br /> <br /> Originally located in the grounds of the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, the statue was relocated to Alexandra in 1939 where it was installed in the pretty Jack Shiel Gardens where she is surrounded by beds of roses, her favourite flower. In 1994 the statue was unveiled under a new colonnade, which was financed under the Centennial Awards. <br /> <br /> Charles Summer was a regular exhibitor at Royal Academy exhibitions; more than 40 of his works were shown between 1849 and 1876. He was a competent sculptor who also created the figures on the ceiling of the council chamber of Melbourne’s Parliament House, a frieze of putti on the old Bank of New South Wales building (now located at Melbourne University) and the recumbent figure of Lady Macleay in Surrey. However it is the memorial to the explorers Burke and Wills on the corner of Collins and Swanston Streets in Melbourne’s heart that he is best known for.<br /> <br /> Born in 1845, Princess Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia was a Princess of Denmark; one of five sisters (two of whom would also became Queens of Norway and Russia). A beautiful and slender lady with perfect complexion and lovely mannerisms as befitting a queen, Alexandra was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1841 – 1910) the heir apparent of Queen Victoria when the Danish princess was just sixteen. They married eighteen months later in 1863 in the St George Chapel, Windsor Castle, the same year her father became Christian IX of Denmark and her brother, George, was appointed King of Greece. She was Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1901, the longest anyone has ever held that title, and became generally popular; her style of dress and bearing were copied by fashion-conscious women. On the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, Albert Edward became King-Emperor as Edward VII, with Alexandra as Queen-Empress Consort. From Edward's death in 1910 until her own death, she was the Queen Mother. She died of a heart attack just before her 80th birthday in 1925 and was buried in an elaborate tomb next to her husband in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.<br /> <br /> Alexandra is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located at the junction of the Goulburn Valley Highway (B340) and Maroondah Highway (B360), 26 kilometres west of Eildon. The town was settled in the late 1860s, with a Post Office opening on 15 March 1867 (known until 24 April 1867) as Redgate. The town was originally known as Redgate, or Red Gate Diggings. The current name either derives from Alexandra of Denmark (Queen’s Consort to King Edward VII of England) when given a stature of her to the shire; or from three men named Alexander (Alesander, McGregor, Alexander Don, and Alexander Luckie) who discovered gold in the area in 1866. Charles Jones born Herefordshire also discovered Gold on the Luckie Mine in 1866. He bought a Hotel with John Henry Osborne and was the proprietor of the New York and London Hotel Grant Street Alexandra. The railway to Alexandra arrived in the town via Yea from Tallarook in 1909, and closed on November 18, 1978. The Rubicon Tramway connected Alexandra with the village of Rubicon, at the junction of the Rubicon and Royston Rivers. Today many tourists pass through Alexandra on their way to the Mount Buller ski resort from Melbourne. The town contains the Timber Tramway and Museum (located at the Alexandra Railway Station), and the National Trust classified post office and law courts. There is a local market on the second Saturday of each month from September to May, an annual art show at Easter, an agricultural show and rose festival in November, and the annual Truck, Rod and Ute Show in June.</p> raaen99 sculpture woman tiara art statue female garden town artwork memorial princess seat country 19thcentury 1800s victorian australia victoria pearls queen alexandra victoriana danish figure crown dane commission ruler grounds royalty edwardian nineteenthcentury drapery 1870s commissioned femaleform marblestatue countryvictoria whitemarble femalefigure 1878 countrytown marblesculpture britishroyalfamily femalestatue queenalexandra italianmarble princessalexandra alexandraprincessofwales femalesculpture artistdesigned perkinsst edwardiana provincialvictoria danishroyalfamily perkinsstreet charlessummer kingsconsort alexandraofdenmark englishqueen danishprincess britishruler sirwilliamclarke princessalexandrastatue alexandrastatue princessofwalesstatue princessalexandracarolinemariecharlottelouisejulia sirwilliamjclarke jackshielgardens jackshielmemorialgardens http://www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/8663860933/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/40262251@N03/">raaen99</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/8663860933/" title="The Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8250/8663860933_ef924de1e8_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="The Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra" /></a></p> <p>The Princess Alexandra Statue, located in the Jack Shiel Gardens in the north eastern country town of Alexandra, is the work of English sculptor Charles Summers (1825 – 1878). The Princess Alexandra Statue is made of white Italian marble, and was completed in Rome as part of a commission for Sir William J. Clarke (1831 – 1897) in 1876. Sir William commissioned him to sculpt four large statues in marble of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and the then Prince and Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) for presentation to the Melbourne art gallery. These were completed in 1878. Soon afterwards Charles Summers while on his way to England was taken seriously ill, and died after an operation for acute goitre in Paris. The Princess Alexandra Statue was his last sculpture. <br /> <br /> Originally located in the grounds of the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, the statue was relocated to Alexandra in 1939 where it was installed in the pretty Jack Shiel Gardens where she is surrounded by beds of roses, her favourite flower. In 1994 the statue was unveiled under a new colonnade, which was financed under the Centennial Awards. <br /> <br /> Charles Summer was a regular exhibitor at Royal Academy exhibitions; more than 40 of his works were shown between 1849 and 1876. He was a competent sculptor who also created the figures on the ceiling of the council chamber of Melbourne’s Parliament House, a frieze of putti on the old Bank of New South Wales building (now located at Melbourne University) and the recumbent figure of Lady Macleay in Surrey. However it is the memorial to the explorers Burke and Wills on the corner of Collins and Swanston Streets in Melbourne’s heart that he is best known for.<br /> <br /> Born in 1845, Princess Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia was a Princess of Denmark; one of five sisters (two of whom would also became Queens of Norway and Russia). A beautiful and slender lady with perfect complexion and lovely mannerisms as befitting a queen, Alexandra was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1841 – 1910) the heir apparent of Queen Victoria when the Danish princess was just sixteen. They married eighteen months later in 1863 in the St George Chapel, Windsor Castle, the same year her father became Christian IX of Denmark and her brother, George, was appointed King of Greece. She was Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1901, the longest anyone has ever held that title, and became generally popular; her style of dress and bearing were copied by fashion-conscious women. On the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, Albert Edward became King-Emperor as Edward VII, with Alexandra as Queen-Empress Consort. From Edward's death in 1910 until her own death, she was the Queen Mother. She died of a heart attack just before her 80th birthday in 1925 and was buried in an elaborate tomb next to her husband in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.<br /> <br /> Alexandra is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located at the junction of the Goulburn Valley Highway (B340) and Maroondah Highway (B360), 26 kilometres west of Eildon. The town was settled in the late 1860s, with a Post Office opening on 15 March 1867 (known until 24 April 1867) as Redgate. The town was originally known as Redgate, or Red Gate Diggings. The current name either derives from Alexandra of Denmark (Queen’s Consort to King Edward VII of England) when given a stature of her to the shire; or from three men named Alexander (Alesander, McGregor, Alexander Don, and Alexander Luckie) who discovered gold in the area in 1866. Charles Jones born Herefordshire also discovered Gold on the Luckie Mine in 1866. He bought a Hotel with John Henry Osborne and was the proprietor of the New York and London Hotel Grant Street Alexandra. The railway to Alexandra arrived in the town via Yea from Tallarook in 1909, and closed on November 18, 1978. The Rubicon Tramway connected Alexandra with the village of Rubicon, at the junction of the Rubicon and Royston Rivers. Today many tourists pass through Alexandra on their way to the Mount Buller ski resort from Melbourne. The town contains the Timber Tramway and Museum (located at the Alexandra Railway Station), and the National Trust classified post office and law courts. There is a local market on the second Saturday of each month from September to May, an annual art show at Easter, an agricultural show and rose festival in November, and the annual Truck, Rod and Ute Show in June.</p> Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:56:04 -0700 2013-03-31T15:22:20-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (raaen99) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/8663860933 The Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra <p>The Princess Alexandra Statue, located in the Jack Shiel Gardens in the north eastern country town of Alexandra, is the work of English sculptor Charles Summers (1825 – 1878). The Princess Alexandra Statue is made of white Italian marble, and was completed in Rome as part of a commission for Sir William J. Clarke (1831 – 1897) in 1876. Sir William commissioned him to sculpt four large statues in marble of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and the then Prince and Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) for presentation to the Melbourne art gallery. These were completed in 1878. Soon afterwards Charles Summers while on his way to England was taken seriously ill, and died after an operation for acute goitre in Paris. The Princess Alexandra Statue was his last sculpture. <br /> <br /> Originally located in the grounds of the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, the statue was relocated to Alexandra in 1939 where it was installed in the pretty Jack Shiel Gardens where she is surrounded by beds of roses, her favourite flower. In 1994 the statue was unveiled under a new colonnade, which was financed under the Centennial Awards. <br /> <br /> Charles Summer was a regular exhibitor at Royal Academy exhibitions; more than 40 of his works were shown between 1849 and 1876. He was a competent sculptor who also created the figures on the ceiling of the council chamber of Melbourne’s Parliament House, a frieze of putti on the old Bank of New South Wales building (now located at Melbourne University) and the recumbent figure of Lady Macleay in Surrey. However it is the memorial to the explorers Burke and Wills on the corner of Collins and Swanston Streets in Melbourne’s heart that he is best known for.<br /> <br /> Born in 1845, Princess Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia was a Princess of Denmark; one of five sisters (two of whom would also became Queens of Norway and Russia). A beautiful and slender lady with perfect complexion and lovely mannerisms as befitting a queen, Alexandra was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1841 – 1910) the heir apparent of Queen Victoria when the Danish princess was just sixteen. They married eighteen months later in 1863 in the St George Chapel, Windsor Castle, the same year her father became Christian IX of Denmark and her brother, George, was appointed King of Greece. She was Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1901, the longest anyone has ever held that title, and became generally popular; her style of dress and bearing were copied by fashion-conscious women. On the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, Albert Edward became King-Emperor as Edward VII, with Alexandra as Queen-Empress Consort. From Edward's death in 1910 until her own death, she was the Queen Mother. She died of a heart attack just before her 80th birthday in 1925 and was buried in an elaborate tomb next to her husband in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.<br /> <br /> Alexandra is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located at the junction of the Goulburn Valley Highway (B340) and Maroondah Highway (B360), 26 kilometres west of Eildon. The town was settled in the late 1860s, with a Post Office opening on 15 March 1867 (known until 24 April 1867) as Redgate. The town was originally known as Redgate, or Red Gate Diggings. The current name either derives from Alexandra of Denmark (Queen’s Consort to King Edward VII of England) when given a stature of her to the shire; or from three men named Alexander (Alesander, McGregor, Alexander Don, and Alexander Luckie) who discovered gold in the area in 1866. Charles Jones born Herefordshire also discovered Gold on the Luckie Mine in 1866. He bought a Hotel with John Henry Osborne and was the proprietor of the New York and London Hotel Grant Street Alexandra. The railway to Alexandra arrived in the town via Yea from Tallarook in 1909, and closed on November 18, 1978. The Rubicon Tramway connected Alexandra with the village of Rubicon, at the junction of the Rubicon and Royston Rivers. Today many tourists pass through Alexandra on their way to the Mount Buller ski resort from Melbourne. The town contains the Timber Tramway and Museum (located at the Alexandra Railway Station), and the National Trust classified post office and law courts. There is a local market on the second Saturday of each month from September to May, an annual art show at Easter, an agricultural show and rose festival in November, and the annual Truck, Rod and Ute Show in June.</p> raaen99 sculpture woman tiara art statue female garden town artwork memorial princess seat country 19thcentury 1800s victorian australia victoria pearls queen alexandra victoriana danish figure crown dane commission ruler grounds royalty edwardian nineteenthcentury drapery 1870s commissioned femaleform marblestatue countryvictoria whitemarble femalefigure 1878 countrytown marblesculpture britishroyalfamily femalestatue queenalexandra italianmarble princessalexandra alexandraprincessofwales femalesculpture artistdesigned perkinsst edwardiana provincialvictoria danishroyalfamily perkinsstreet charlessummer kingsconsort alexandraofdenmark englishqueen danishprincess britishruler sirwilliamclarke princessalexandrastatue alexandrastatue princessofwalesstatue princessalexandracarolinemariecharlottelouisejulia sirwilliamjclarke jackshielgardens jackshielmemorialgardens http://www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/8663859149/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/40262251@N03/">raaen99</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/8663859149/" title="The Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8239/8663859149_a2ef814f9e_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="The Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra" /></a></p> <p>The Princess Alexandra Statue, located in the Jack Shiel Gardens in the north eastern country town of Alexandra, is the work of English sculptor Charles Summers (1825 – 1878). The Princess Alexandra Statue is made of white Italian marble, and was completed in Rome as part of a commission for Sir William J. Clarke (1831 – 1897) in 1876. Sir William commissioned him to sculpt four large statues in marble of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and the then Prince and Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) for presentation to the Melbourne art gallery. These were completed in 1878. Soon afterwards Charles Summers while on his way to England was taken seriously ill, and died after an operation for acute goitre in Paris. The Princess Alexandra Statue was his last sculpture. <br /> <br /> Originally located in the grounds of the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, the statue was relocated to Alexandra in 1939 where it was installed in the pretty Jack Shiel Gardens where she is surrounded by beds of roses, her favourite flower. In 1994 the statue was unveiled under a new colonnade, which was financed under the Centennial Awards. <br /> <br /> Charles Summer was a regular exhibitor at Royal Academy exhibitions; more than 40 of his works were shown between 1849 and 1876. He was a competent sculptor who also created the figures on the ceiling of the council chamber of Melbourne’s Parliament House, a frieze of putti on the old Bank of New South Wales building (now located at Melbourne University) and the recumbent figure of Lady Macleay in Surrey. However it is the memorial to the explorers Burke and Wills on the corner of Collins and Swanston Streets in Melbourne’s heart that he is best known for.<br /> <br /> Born in 1845, Princess Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia was a Princess of Denmark; one of five sisters (two of whom would also became Queens of Norway and Russia). A beautiful and slender lady with perfect complexion and lovely mannerisms as befitting a queen, Alexandra was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1841 – 1910) the heir apparent of Queen Victoria when the Danish princess was just sixteen. They married eighteen months later in 1863 in the St George Chapel, Windsor Castle, the same year her father became Christian IX of Denmark and her brother, George, was appointed King of Greece. She was Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1901, the longest anyone has ever held that title, and became generally popular; her style of dress and bearing were copied by fashion-conscious women. On the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, Albert Edward became King-Emperor as Edward VII, with Alexandra as Queen-Empress Consort. From Edward's death in 1910 until her own death, she was the Queen Mother. She died of a heart attack just before her 80th birthday in 1925 and was buried in an elaborate tomb next to her husband in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.<br /> <br /> Alexandra is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located at the junction of the Goulburn Valley Highway (B340) and Maroondah Highway (B360), 26 kilometres west of Eildon. The town was settled in the late 1860s, with a Post Office opening on 15 March 1867 (known until 24 April 1867) as Redgate. The town was originally known as Redgate, or Red Gate Diggings. The current name either derives from Alexandra of Denmark (Queen’s Consort to King Edward VII of England) when given a stature of her to the shire; or from three men named Alexander (Alesander, McGregor, Alexander Don, and Alexander Luckie) who discovered gold in the area in 1866. Charles Jones born Herefordshire also discovered Gold on the Luckie Mine in 1866. He bought a Hotel with John Henry Osborne and was the proprietor of the New York and London Hotel Grant Street Alexandra. The railway to Alexandra arrived in the town via Yea from Tallarook in 1909, and closed on November 18, 1978. The Rubicon Tramway connected Alexandra with the village of Rubicon, at the junction of the Rubicon and Royston Rivers. Today many tourists pass through Alexandra on their way to the Mount Buller ski resort from Melbourne. The town contains the Timber Tramway and Museum (located at the Alexandra Railway Station), and the National Trust classified post office and law courts. There is a local market on the second Saturday of each month from September to May, an annual art show at Easter, an agricultural show and rose festival in November, and the annual Truck, Rod and Ute Show in June.</p> Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:56:02 -0700 2013-03-31T15:24:03-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (raaen99) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/8663859149 The Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra <p>The Princess Alexandra Statue, located in the Jack Shiel Gardens in the north eastern country town of Alexandra, is the work of English sculptor Charles Summers (1825 – 1878). The Princess Alexandra Statue is made of white Italian marble, and was completed in Rome as part of a commission for Sir William J. Clarke (1831 – 1897) in 1876. Sir William commissioned him to sculpt four large statues in marble of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and the then Prince and Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) for presentation to the Melbourne art gallery. These were completed in 1878. Soon afterwards Charles Summers while on his way to England was taken seriously ill, and died after an operation for acute goitre in Paris. The Princess Alexandra Statue was his last sculpture. <br /> <br /> Originally located in the grounds of the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, the statue was relocated to Alexandra in 1939 where it was installed in the pretty Jack Shiel Gardens where she is surrounded by beds of roses, her favourite flower. In 1994 the statue was unveiled under a new colonnade, which was financed under the Centennial Awards. <br /> <br /> Charles Summer was a regular exhibitor at Royal Academy exhibitions; more than 40 of his works were shown between 1849 and 1876. He was a competent sculptor who also created the figures on the ceiling of the council chamber of Melbourne’s Parliament House, a frieze of putti on the old Bank of New South Wales building (now located at Melbourne University) and the recumbent figure of Lady Macleay in Surrey. However it is the memorial to the explorers Burke and Wills on the corner of Collins and Swanston Streets in Melbourne’s heart that he is best known for.<br /> <br /> Born in 1845, Princess Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia was a Princess of Denmark; one of five sisters (two of whom would also became Queens of Norway and Russia). A beautiful and slender lady with perfect complexion and lovely mannerisms as befitting a queen, Alexandra was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1841 – 1910) the heir apparent of Queen Victoria when the Danish princess was just sixteen. They married eighteen months later in 1863 in the St George Chapel, Windsor Castle, the same year her father became Christian IX of Denmark and her brother, George, was appointed King of Greece. She was Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1901, the longest anyone has ever held that title, and became generally popular; her style of dress and bearing were copied by fashion-conscious women. On the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, Albert Edward became King-Emperor as Edward VII, with Alexandra as Queen-Empress Consort. From Edward's death in 1910 until her own death, she was the Queen Mother. She died of a heart attack just before her 80th birthday in 1925 and was buried in an elaborate tomb next to her husband in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.<br /> <br /> Alexandra is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located at the junction of the Goulburn Valley Highway (B340) and Maroondah Highway (B360), 26 kilometres west of Eildon. The town was settled in the late 1860s, with a Post Office opening on 15 March 1867 (known until 24 April 1867) as Redgate. The town was originally known as Redgate, or Red Gate Diggings. The current name either derives from Alexandra of Denmark (Queen’s Consort to King Edward VII of England) when given a stature of her to the shire; or from three men named Alexander (Alesander, McGregor, Alexander Don, and Alexander Luckie) who discovered gold in the area in 1866. Charles Jones born Herefordshire also discovered Gold on the Luckie Mine in 1866. He bought a Hotel with John Henry Osborne and was the proprietor of the New York and London Hotel Grant Street Alexandra. The railway to Alexandra arrived in the town via Yea from Tallarook in 1909, and closed on November 18, 1978. The Rubicon Tramway connected Alexandra with the village of Rubicon, at the junction of the Rubicon and Royston Rivers. Today many tourists pass through Alexandra on their way to the Mount Buller ski resort from Melbourne. The town contains the Timber Tramway and Museum (located at the Alexandra Railway Station), and the National Trust classified post office and law courts. There is a local market on the second Saturday of each month from September to May, an annual art show at Easter, an agricultural show and rose festival in November, and the annual Truck, Rod and Ute Show in June.</p> raaen99 sculpture woman tiara art statue female garden town artwork memorial princess seat country 19thcentury 1800s victorian australia victoria pearls queen alexandra victoriana danish figure crown dane commission ruler grounds royalty edwardian nineteenthcentury drapery 1870s commissioned femaleform marblestatue countryvictoria whitemarble femalefigure 1878 countrytown marblesculpture britishroyalfamily femalestatue queenalexandra italianmarble princessalexandra alexandraprincessofwales femalesculpture artistdesigned perkinsst edwardiana provincialvictoria danishroyalfamily perkinsstreet charlessummer kingsconsort alexandraofdenmark englishqueen danishprincess britishruler sirwilliamclarke princessalexandrastatue alexandrastatue princessofwalesstatue princessalexandracarolinemariecharlottelouisejulia sirwilliamjclarke jackshielgardens jackshielmemorialgardens http://www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/8664957672/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/40262251@N03/">raaen99</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/8664957672/" title="The Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8253/8664957672_89cb735cd0_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="The Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra" /></a></p> <p>The Princess Alexandra Statue, located in the Jack Shiel Gardens in the north eastern country town of Alexandra, is the work of English sculptor Charles Summers (1825 – 1878). The Princess Alexandra Statue is made of white Italian marble, and was completed in Rome as part of a commission for Sir William J. Clarke (1831 – 1897) in 1876. Sir William commissioned him to sculpt four large statues in marble of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and the then Prince and Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) for presentation to the Melbourne art gallery. These were completed in 1878. Soon afterwards Charles Summers while on his way to England was taken seriously ill, and died after an operation for acute goitre in Paris. The Princess Alexandra Statue was his last sculpture. <br /> <br /> Originally located in the grounds of the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, the statue was relocated to Alexandra in 1939 where it was installed in the pretty Jack Shiel Gardens where she is surrounded by beds of roses, her favourite flower. In 1994 the statue was unveiled under a new colonnade, which was financed under the Centennial Awards. <br /> <br /> Charles Summer was a regular exhibitor at Royal Academy exhibitions; more than 40 of his works were shown between 1849 and 1876. He was a competent sculptor who also created the figures on the ceiling of the council chamber of Melbourne’s Parliament House, a frieze of putti on the old Bank of New South Wales building (now located at Melbourne University) and the recumbent figure of Lady Macleay in Surrey. However it is the memorial to the explorers Burke and Wills on the corner of Collins and Swanston Streets in Melbourne’s heart that he is best known for.<br /> <br /> Born in 1845, Princess Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia was a Princess of Denmark; one of five sisters (two of whom would also became Queens of Norway and Russia). A beautiful and slender lady with perfect complexion and lovely mannerisms as befitting a queen, Alexandra was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1841 – 1910) the heir apparent of Queen Victoria when the Danish princess was just sixteen. They married eighteen months later in 1863 in the St George Chapel, Windsor Castle, the same year her father became Christian IX of Denmark and her brother, George, was appointed King of Greece. She was Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1901, the longest anyone has ever held that title, and became generally popular; her style of dress and bearing were copied by fashion-conscious women. On the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, Albert Edward became King-Emperor as Edward VII, with Alexandra as Queen-Empress Consort. From Edward's death in 1910 until her own death, she was the Queen Mother. She died of a heart attack just before her 80th birthday in 1925 and was buried in an elaborate tomb next to her husband in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.<br /> <br /> Alexandra is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located at the junction of the Goulburn Valley Highway (B340) and Maroondah Highway (B360), 26 kilometres west of Eildon. The town was settled in the late 1860s, with a Post Office opening on 15 March 1867 (known until 24 April 1867) as Redgate. The town was originally known as Redgate, or Red Gate Diggings. The current name either derives from Alexandra of Denmark (Queen’s Consort to King Edward VII of England) when given a stature of her to the shire; or from three men named Alexander (Alesander, McGregor, Alexander Don, and Alexander Luckie) who discovered gold in the area in 1866. Charles Jones born Herefordshire also discovered Gold on the Luckie Mine in 1866. He bought a Hotel with John Henry Osborne and was the proprietor of the New York and London Hotel Grant Street Alexandra. The railway to Alexandra arrived in the town via Yea from Tallarook in 1909, and closed on November 18, 1978. The Rubicon Tramway connected Alexandra with the village of Rubicon, at the junction of the Rubicon and Royston Rivers. Today many tourists pass through Alexandra on their way to the Mount Buller ski resort from Melbourne. The town contains the Timber Tramway and Museum (located at the Alexandra Railway Station), and the National Trust classified post office and law courts. There is a local market on the second Saturday of each month from September to May, an annual art show at Easter, an agricultural show and rose festival in November, and the annual Truck, Rod and Ute Show in June.</p> Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:56:01 -0700 2013-03-31T16:22:55-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (raaen99) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/8664957672 The Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra <p>The Princess Alexandra Statue, located in the Jack Shiel Gardens in the north eastern country town of Alexandra, is the work of English sculptor Charles Summers (1825 – 1878). The Princess Alexandra Statue is made of white Italian marble, and was completed in Rome as part of a commission for Sir William J. Clarke (1831 – 1897) in 1876. Sir William commissioned him to sculpt four large statues in marble of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and the then Prince and Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) for presentation to the Melbourne art gallery. These were completed in 1878. Soon afterwards Charles Summers while on his way to England was taken seriously ill, and died after an operation for acute goitre in Paris. The Princess Alexandra Statue was his last sculpture. <br /> <br /> Originally located in the grounds of the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, the statue was relocated to Alexandra in 1939 where it was installed in the pretty Jack Shiel Gardens where she is surrounded by beds of roses, her favourite flower. In 1994 the statue was unveiled under a new colonnade, which was financed under the Centennial Awards. <br /> <br /> Charles Summer was a regular exhibitor at Royal Academy exhibitions; more than 40 of his works were shown between 1849 and 1876. He was a competent sculptor who also created the figures on the ceiling of the council chamber of Melbourne’s Parliament House, a frieze of putti on the old Bank of New South Wales building (now located at Melbourne University) and the recumbent figure of Lady Macleay in Surrey. However it is the memorial to the explorers Burke and Wills on the corner of Collins and Swanston Streets in Melbourne’s heart that he is best known for.<br /> <br /> Born in 1845, Princess Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia was a Princess of Denmark; one of five sisters (two of whom would also became Queens of Norway and Russia). A beautiful and slender lady with perfect complexion and lovely mannerisms as befitting a queen, Alexandra was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1841 – 1910) the heir apparent of Queen Victoria when the Danish princess was just sixteen. They married eighteen months later in 1863 in the St George Chapel, Windsor Castle, the same year her father became Christian IX of Denmark and her brother, George, was appointed King of Greece. She was Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1901, the longest anyone has ever held that title, and became generally popular; her style of dress and bearing were copied by fashion-conscious women. On the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, Albert Edward became King-Emperor as Edward VII, with Alexandra as Queen-Empress Consort. From Edward's death in 1910 until her own death, she was the Queen Mother. She died of a heart attack just before her 80th birthday in 1925 and was buried in an elaborate tomb next to her husband in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.<br /> <br /> Alexandra is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located at the junction of the Goulburn Valley Highway (B340) and Maroondah Highway (B360), 26 kilometres west of Eildon. The town was settled in the late 1860s, with a Post Office opening on 15 March 1867 (known until 24 April 1867) as Redgate. The town was originally known as Redgate, or Red Gate Diggings. The current name either derives from Alexandra of Denmark (Queen’s Consort to King Edward VII of England) when given a stature of her to the shire; or from three men named Alexander (Alesander, McGregor, Alexander Don, and Alexander Luckie) who discovered gold in the area in 1866. Charles Jones born Herefordshire also discovered Gold on the Luckie Mine in 1866. He bought a Hotel with John Henry Osborne and was the proprietor of the New York and London Hotel Grant Street Alexandra. The railway to Alexandra arrived in the town via Yea from Tallarook in 1909, and closed on November 18, 1978. The Rubicon Tramway connected Alexandra with the village of Rubicon, at the junction of the Rubicon and Royston Rivers. Today many tourists pass through Alexandra on their way to the Mount Buller ski resort from Melbourne. The town contains the Timber Tramway and Museum (located at the Alexandra Railway Station), and the National Trust classified post office and law courts. There is a local market on the second Saturday of each month from September to May, an annual art show at Easter, an agricultural show and rose festival in November, and the annual Truck, Rod and Ute Show in June.</p> raaen99 sculpture woman tiara art statue female garden town artwork memorial princess seat country 19thcentury 1800s victorian australia victoria pearls queen alexandra victoriana danish figure crown dane commission ruler grounds royalty edwardian nineteenthcentury drapery 1870s commissioned femaleform marblestatue countryvictoria whitemarble femalefigure 1878 countrytown marblesculpture britishroyalfamily femalestatue queenalexandra italianmarble princessalexandra alexandraprincessofwales femalesculpture artistdesigned perkinsst edwardiana provincialvictoria danishroyalfamily perkinsstreet charlessummer kingsconsort alexandraofdenmark englishqueen danishprincess britishruler sirwilliamclarke princessalexandrastatue alexandrastatue princessofwalesstatue princessalexandracarolinemariecharlottelouisejulia sirwilliamjclarke jackshielgardens jackshielmemorialgardens http://www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/8663849663/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/40262251@N03/">raaen99</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/8663849663/" title="The Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8254/8663849663_2819633785_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="The Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra" /></a></p> <p>The Princess Alexandra Statue, located in the Jack Shiel Gardens in the north eastern country town of Alexandra, is the work of English sculptor Charles Summers (1825 – 1878). The Princess Alexandra Statue is made of white Italian marble, and was completed in Rome as part of a commission for Sir William J. Clarke (1831 – 1897) in 1876. Sir William commissioned him to sculpt four large statues in marble of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and the then Prince and Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) for presentation to the Melbourne art gallery. These were completed in 1878. Soon afterwards Charles Summers while on his way to England was taken seriously ill, and died after an operation for acute goitre in Paris. The Princess Alexandra Statue was his last sculpture. <br /> <br /> Originally located in the grounds of the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, the statue was relocated to Alexandra in 1939 where it was installed in the pretty Jack Shiel Gardens where she is surrounded by beds of roses, her favourite flower. In 1994 the statue was unveiled under a new colonnade, which was financed under the Centennial Awards. <br /> <br /> Charles Summer was a regular exhibitor at Royal Academy exhibitions; more than 40 of his works were shown between 1849 and 1876. He was a competent sculptor who also created the figures on the ceiling of the council chamber of Melbourne’s Parliament House, a frieze of putti on the old Bank of New South Wales building (now located at Melbourne University) and the recumbent figure of Lady Macleay in Surrey. However it is the memorial to the explorers Burke and Wills on the corner of Collins and Swanston Streets in Melbourne’s heart that he is best known for.<br /> <br /> Born in 1845, Princess Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia was a Princess of Denmark; one of five sisters (two of whom would also became Queens of Norway and Russia). A beautiful and slender lady with perfect complexion and lovely mannerisms as befitting a queen, Alexandra was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1841 – 1910) the heir apparent of Queen Victoria when the Danish princess was just sixteen. They married eighteen months later in 1863 in the St George Chapel, Windsor Castle, the same year her father became Christian IX of Denmark and her brother, George, was appointed King of Greece. She was Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1901, the longest anyone has ever held that title, and became generally popular; her style of dress and bearing were copied by fashion-conscious women. On the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, Albert Edward became King-Emperor as Edward VII, with Alexandra as Queen-Empress Consort. From Edward's death in 1910 until her own death, she was the Queen Mother. She died of a heart attack just before her 80th birthday in 1925 and was buried in an elaborate tomb next to her husband in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.<br /> <br /> Alexandra is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located at the junction of the Goulburn Valley Highway (B340) and Maroondah Highway (B360), 26 kilometres west of Eildon. The town was settled in the late 1860s, with a Post Office opening on 15 March 1867 (known until 24 April 1867) as Redgate. The town was originally known as Redgate, or Red Gate Diggings. The current name either derives from Alexandra of Denmark (Queen’s Consort to King Edward VII of England) when given a stature of her to the shire; or from three men named Alexander (Alesander, McGregor, Alexander Don, and Alexander Luckie) who discovered gold in the area in 1866. Charles Jones born Herefordshire also discovered Gold on the Luckie Mine in 1866. He bought a Hotel with John Henry Osborne and was the proprietor of the New York and London Hotel Grant Street Alexandra. The railway to Alexandra arrived in the town via Yea from Tallarook in 1909, and closed on November 18, 1978. The Rubicon Tramway connected Alexandra with the village of Rubicon, at the junction of the Rubicon and Royston Rivers. Today many tourists pass through Alexandra on their way to the Mount Buller ski resort from Melbourne. The town contains the Timber Tramway and Museum (located at the Alexandra Railway Station), and the National Trust classified post office and law courts. There is a local market on the second Saturday of each month from September to May, an annual art show at Easter, an agricultural show and rose festival in November, and the annual Truck, Rod and Ute Show in June.</p> Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:55:57 -0700 2013-03-31T16:23:08-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (raaen99) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/8663849663 The Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra <p>The Princess Alexandra Statue, located in the Jack Shiel Gardens in the north eastern country town of Alexandra, is the work of English sculptor Charles Summers (1825 – 1878). The Princess Alexandra Statue is made of white Italian marble, and was completed in Rome as part of a commission for Sir William J. Clarke (1831 – 1897) in 1876. Sir William commissioned him to sculpt four large statues in marble of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and the then Prince and Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) for presentation to the Melbourne art gallery. These were completed in 1878. Soon afterwards Charles Summers while on his way to England was taken seriously ill, and died after an operation for acute goitre in Paris. The Princess Alexandra Statue was his last sculpture. <br /> <br /> Originally located in the grounds of the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, the statue was relocated to Alexandra in 1939 where it was installed in the pretty Jack Shiel Gardens where she is surrounded by beds of roses, her favourite flower. In 1994 the statue was unveiled under a new colonnade, which was financed under the Centennial Awards. <br /> <br /> Charles Summer was a regular exhibitor at Royal Academy exhibitions; more than 40 of his works were shown between 1849 and 1876. He was a competent sculptor who also created the figures on the ceiling of the council chamber of Melbourne’s Parliament House, a frieze of putti on the old Bank of New South Wales building (now located at Melbourne University) and the recumbent figure of Lady Macleay in Surrey. However it is the memorial to the explorers Burke and Wills on the corner of Collins and Swanston Streets in Melbourne’s heart that he is best known for.<br /> <br /> Born in 1845, Princess Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia was a Princess of Denmark; one of five sisters (two of whom would also became Queens of Norway and Russia). A beautiful and slender lady with perfect complexion and lovely mannerisms as befitting a queen, Alexandra was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1841 – 1910) the heir apparent of Queen Victoria when the Danish princess was just sixteen. They married eighteen months later in 1863 in the St George Chapel, Windsor Castle, the same year her father became Christian IX of Denmark and her brother, George, was appointed King of Greece. She was Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1901, the longest anyone has ever held that title, and became generally popular; her style of dress and bearing were copied by fashion-conscious women. On the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, Albert Edward became King-Emperor as Edward VII, with Alexandra as Queen-Empress Consort. From Edward's death in 1910 until her own death, she was the Queen Mother. She died of a heart attack just before her 80th birthday in 1925 and was buried in an elaborate tomb next to her husband in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.<br /> <br /> Alexandra is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located at the junction of the Goulburn Valley Highway (B340) and Maroondah Highway (B360), 26 kilometres west of Eildon. The town was settled in the late 1860s, with a Post Office opening on 15 March 1867 (known until 24 April 1867) as Redgate. The town was originally known as Redgate, or Red Gate Diggings. The current name either derives from Alexandra of Denmark (Queen’s Consort to King Edward VII of England) when given a stature of her to the shire; or from three men named Alexander (Alesander, McGregor, Alexander Don, and Alexander Luckie) who discovered gold in the area in 1866. Charles Jones born Herefordshire also discovered Gold on the Luckie Mine in 1866. He bought a Hotel with John Henry Osborne and was the proprietor of the New York and London Hotel Grant Street Alexandra. The railway to Alexandra arrived in the town via Yea from Tallarook in 1909, and closed on November 18, 1978. The Rubicon Tramway connected Alexandra with the village of Rubicon, at the junction of the Rubicon and Royston Rivers. Today many tourists pass through Alexandra on their way to the Mount Buller ski resort from Melbourne. The town contains the Timber Tramway and Museum (located at the Alexandra Railway Station), and the National Trust classified post office and law courts. There is a local market on the second Saturday of each month from September to May, an annual art show at Easter, an agricultural show and rose festival in November, and the annual Truck, Rod and Ute Show in June.</p> raaen99 sculpture woman tiara art statue female garden town artwork memorial princess seat country 19thcentury 1800s victorian australia victoria pearls queen alexandra victoriana danish figure crown dane commission ruler grounds royalty edwardian nineteenthcentury drapery 1870s commissioned femaleform marblestatue countryvictoria whitemarble femalefigure 1878 countrytown marblesculpture britishroyalfamily femalestatue queenalexandra italianmarble princessalexandra alexandraprincessofwales femalesculpture artistdesigned perkinsst edwardiana provincialvictoria danishroyalfamily perkinsstreet charlessummer kingsconsort alexandraofdenmark englishqueen danishprincess britishruler sirwilliamclarke princessalexandrastatue alexandrastatue princessofwalesstatue princessalexandracarolinemariecharlottelouisejulia sirwilliamjclarke jackshielgardens jackshielmemorialgardens http://www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/8663852843/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/40262251@N03/">raaen99</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/8663852843/" title="Detail of the Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8266/8663852843_41dc960351_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="Detail of the Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra" /></a></p> <p>The Princess Alexandra Statue, located in the Jack Shiel Gardens in the north eastern country town of Alexandra, is the work of English sculptor Charles Summers (1825 – 1878). The Princess Alexandra Statue is made of white Italian marble, and was completed in Rome as part of a commission for Sir William J. Clarke (1831 – 1897) in 1876. Sir William commissioned him to sculpt four large statues in marble of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and the then Prince and Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) for presentation to the Melbourne art gallery. These were completed in 1878. Soon afterwards Charles Summers while on his way to England was taken seriously ill, and died after an operation for acute goitre in Paris. The Princess Alexandra Statue was his last sculpture. <br /> <br /> Originally located in the grounds of the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, the statue was relocated to Alexandra in 1939 where it was installed in the pretty Jack Shiel Gardens where she is surrounded by beds of roses, her favourite flower. In 1994 the statue was unveiled under a new colonnade, which was financed under the Centennial Awards. <br /> <br /> Charles Summer was a regular exhibitor at Royal Academy exhibitions; more than 40 of his works were shown between 1849 and 1876. He was a competent sculptor who also created the figures on the ceiling of the council chamber of Melbourne’s Parliament House, a frieze of putti on the old Bank of New South Wales building (now located at Melbourne University) and the recumbent figure of Lady Macleay in Surrey. However it is the memorial to the explorers Burke and Wills on the corner of Collins and Swanston Streets in Melbourne’s heart that he is best known for.<br /> <br /> Born in 1845, Princess Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia was a Princess of Denmark; one of five sisters (two of whom would also became Queens of Norway and Russia). A beautiful and slender lady with perfect complexion and lovely mannerisms as befitting a queen, Alexandra was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1841 – 1910) the heir apparent of Queen Victoria when the Danish princess was just sixteen. They married eighteen months later in 1863 in the St George Chapel, Windsor Castle, the same year her father became Christian IX of Denmark and her brother, George, was appointed King of Greece. She was Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1901, the longest anyone has ever held that title, and became generally popular; her style of dress and bearing were copied by fashion-conscious women. On the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, Albert Edward became King-Emperor as Edward VII, with Alexandra as Queen-Empress Consort. From Edward's death in 1910 until her own death, she was the Queen Mother. She died of a heart attack just before her 80th birthday in 1925 and was buried in an elaborate tomb next to her husband in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.<br /> <br /> Alexandra is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located at the junction of the Goulburn Valley Highway (B340) and Maroondah Highway (B360), 26 kilometres west of Eildon. The town was settled in the late 1860s, with a Post Office opening on 15 March 1867 (known until 24 April 1867) as Redgate. The town was originally known as Redgate, or Red Gate Diggings. The current name either derives from Alexandra of Denmark (Queen’s Consort to King Edward VII of England) when given a stature of her to the shire; or from three men named Alexander (Alesander, McGregor, Alexander Don, and Alexander Luckie) who discovered gold in the area in 1866. Charles Jones born Herefordshire also discovered Gold on the Luckie Mine in 1866. He bought a Hotel with John Henry Osborne and was the proprietor of the New York and London Hotel Grant Street Alexandra. The railway to Alexandra arrived in the town via Yea from Tallarook in 1909, and closed on November 18, 1978. The Rubicon Tramway connected Alexandra with the village of Rubicon, at the junction of the Rubicon and Royston Rivers. Today many tourists pass through Alexandra on their way to the Mount Buller ski resort from Melbourne. The town contains the Timber Tramway and Museum (located at the Alexandra Railway Station), and the National Trust classified post office and law courts. There is a local market on the second Saturday of each month from September to May, an annual art show at Easter, an agricultural show and rose festival in November, and the annual Truck, Rod and Ute Show in June.</p> Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:55:59 -0700 2013-03-31T15:21:59-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (raaen99) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/8663852843 Detail of the Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra <p>The Princess Alexandra Statue, located in the Jack Shiel Gardens in the north eastern country town of Alexandra, is the work of English sculptor Charles Summers (1825 – 1878). The Princess Alexandra Statue is made of white Italian marble, and was completed in Rome as part of a commission for Sir William J. Clarke (1831 – 1897) in 1876. Sir William commissioned him to sculpt four large statues in marble of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and the then Prince and Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) for presentation to the Melbourne art gallery. These were completed in 1878. Soon afterwards Charles Summers while on his way to England was taken seriously ill, and died after an operation for acute goitre in Paris. The Princess Alexandra Statue was his last sculpture. <br /> <br /> Originally located in the grounds of the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, the statue was relocated to Alexandra in 1939 where it was installed in the pretty Jack Shiel Gardens where she is surrounded by beds of roses, her favourite flower. In 1994 the statue was unveiled under a new colonnade, which was financed under the Centennial Awards. <br /> <br /> Charles Summer was a regular exhibitor at Royal Academy exhibitions; more than 40 of his works were shown between 1849 and 1876. He was a competent sculptor who also created the figures on the ceiling of the council chamber of Melbourne’s Parliament House, a frieze of putti on the old Bank of New South Wales building (now located at Melbourne University) and the recumbent figure of Lady Macleay in Surrey. However it is the memorial to the explorers Burke and Wills on the corner of Collins and Swanston Streets in Melbourne’s heart that he is best known for.<br /> <br /> Born in 1845, Princess Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia was a Princess of Denmark; one of five sisters (two of whom would also became Queens of Norway and Russia). A beautiful and slender lady with perfect complexion and lovely mannerisms as befitting a queen, Alexandra was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1841 – 1910) the heir apparent of Queen Victoria when the Danish princess was just sixteen. They married eighteen months later in 1863 in the St George Chapel, Windsor Castle, the same year her father became Christian IX of Denmark and her brother, George, was appointed King of Greece. She was Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1901, the longest anyone has ever held that title, and became generally popular; her style of dress and bearing were copied by fashion-conscious women. On the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, Albert Edward became King-Emperor as Edward VII, with Alexandra as Queen-Empress Consort. From Edward's death in 1910 until her own death, she was the Queen Mother. She died of a heart attack just before her 80th birthday in 1925 and was buried in an elaborate tomb next to her husband in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.<br /> <br /> Alexandra is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located at the junction of the Goulburn Valley Highway (B340) and Maroondah Highway (B360), 26 kilometres west of Eildon. The town was settled in the late 1860s, with a Post Office opening on 15 March 1867 (known until 24 April 1867) as Redgate. The town was originally known as Redgate, or Red Gate Diggings. The current name either derives from Alexandra of Denmark (Queen’s Consort to King Edward VII of England) when given a stature of her to the shire; or from three men named Alexander (Alesander, McGregor, Alexander Don, and Alexander Luckie) who discovered gold in the area in 1866. Charles Jones born Herefordshire also discovered Gold on the Luckie Mine in 1866. He bought a Hotel with John Henry Osborne and was the proprietor of the New York and London Hotel Grant Street Alexandra. The railway to Alexandra arrived in the town via Yea from Tallarook in 1909, and closed on November 18, 1978. The Rubicon Tramway connected Alexandra with the village of Rubicon, at the junction of the Rubicon and Royston Rivers. Today many tourists pass through Alexandra on their way to the Mount Buller ski resort from Melbourne. The town contains the Timber Tramway and Museum (located at the Alexandra Railway Station), and the National Trust classified post office and law courts. There is a local market on the second Saturday of each month from September to May, an annual art show at Easter, an agricultural show and rose festival in November, and the annual Truck, Rod and Ute Show in June.</p> raaen99 sculpture woman tiara art statue female garden town artwork memorial princess seat country 19thcentury 1800s victorian australia victoria pearls queen alexandra victoriana danish figure crown dane commission ruler grounds royalty edwardian nineteenthcentury drapery 1870s commissioned femaleform marblestatue countryvictoria whitemarble femalefigure 1878 countrytown marblesculpture britishroyalfamily femalestatue queenalexandra italianmarble princessalexandra alexandraprincessofwales femalesculpture artistdesigned perkinsst edwardiana provincialvictoria danishroyalfamily perkinsstreet charlessummer kingsconsort alexandraofdenmark englishqueen danishprincess britishruler sirwilliamclarke princessalexandrastatue alexandrastatue princessofwalesstatue princessalexandracarolinemariecharlottelouisejulia sirwilliamjclarke jackshielgardens jackshielmemorialgardens http://www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/8664958568/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/40262251@N03/">raaen99</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/8664958568/" title="The Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8258/8664958568_6e74a4e46e_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="The Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra" /></a></p> <p>The Princess Alexandra Statue, located in the Jack Shiel Gardens in the north eastern country town of Alexandra, is the work of English sculptor Charles Summers (1825 – 1878). The Princess Alexandra Statue is made of white Italian marble, and was completed in Rome as part of a commission for Sir William J. Clarke (1831 – 1897) in 1876. Sir William commissioned him to sculpt four large statues in marble of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and the then Prince and Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) for presentation to the Melbourne art gallery. These were completed in 1878. Soon afterwards Charles Summers while on his way to England was taken seriously ill, and died after an operation for acute goitre in Paris. The Princess Alexandra Statue was his last sculpture. <br /> <br /> Originally located in the grounds of the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, the statue was relocated to Alexandra in 1939 where it was installed in the pretty Jack Shiel Gardens where she is surrounded by beds of roses, her favourite flower. In 1994 the statue was unveiled under a new colonnade, which was financed under the Centennial Awards. <br /> <br /> Charles Summer was a regular exhibitor at Royal Academy exhibitions; more than 40 of his works were shown between 1849 and 1876. He was a competent sculptor who also created the figures on the ceiling of the council chamber of Melbourne’s Parliament House, a frieze of putti on the old Bank of New South Wales building (now located at Melbourne University) and the recumbent figure of Lady Macleay in Surrey. However it is the memorial to the explorers Burke and Wills on the corner of Collins and Swanston Streets in Melbourne’s heart that he is best known for.<br /> <br /> Born in 1845, Princess Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia was a Princess of Denmark; one of five sisters (two of whom would also became Queens of Norway and Russia). A beautiful and slender lady with perfect complexion and lovely mannerisms as befitting a queen, Alexandra was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1841 – 1910) the heir apparent of Queen Victoria when the Danish princess was just sixteen. They married eighteen months later in 1863 in the St George Chapel, Windsor Castle, the same year her father became Christian IX of Denmark and her brother, George, was appointed King of Greece. She was Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1901, the longest anyone has ever held that title, and became generally popular; her style of dress and bearing were copied by fashion-conscious women. On the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, Albert Edward became King-Emperor as Edward VII, with Alexandra as Queen-Empress Consort. From Edward's death in 1910 until her own death, she was the Queen Mother. She died of a heart attack just before her 80th birthday in 1925 and was buried in an elaborate tomb next to her husband in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.<br /> <br /> Alexandra is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located at the junction of the Goulburn Valley Highway (B340) and Maroondah Highway (B360), 26 kilometres west of Eildon. The town was settled in the late 1860s, with a Post Office opening on 15 March 1867 (known until 24 April 1867) as Redgate. The town was originally known as Redgate, or Red Gate Diggings. The current name either derives from Alexandra of Denmark (Queen’s Consort to King Edward VII of England) when given a stature of her to the shire; or from three men named Alexander (Alesander, McGregor, Alexander Don, and Alexander Luckie) who discovered gold in the area in 1866. Charles Jones born Herefordshire also discovered Gold on the Luckie Mine in 1866. He bought a Hotel with John Henry Osborne and was the proprietor of the New York and London Hotel Grant Street Alexandra. The railway to Alexandra arrived in the town via Yea from Tallarook in 1909, and closed on November 18, 1978. The Rubicon Tramway connected Alexandra with the village of Rubicon, at the junction of the Rubicon and Royston Rivers. Today many tourists pass through Alexandra on their way to the Mount Buller ski resort from Melbourne. The town contains the Timber Tramway and Museum (located at the Alexandra Railway Station), and the National Trust classified post office and law courts. There is a local market on the second Saturday of each month from September to May, an annual art show at Easter, an agricultural show and rose festival in November, and the annual Truck, Rod and Ute Show in June.</p> Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:56:02 -0700 2013-03-31T15:20:51-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (raaen99) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/8664958568 The Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra <p>The Princess Alexandra Statue, located in the Jack Shiel Gardens in the north eastern country town of Alexandra, is the work of English sculptor Charles Summers (1825 – 1878). The Princess Alexandra Statue is made of white Italian marble, and was completed in Rome as part of a commission for Sir William J. Clarke (1831 – 1897) in 1876. Sir William commissioned him to sculpt four large statues in marble of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and the then Prince and Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) for presentation to the Melbourne art gallery. These were completed in 1878. Soon afterwards Charles Summers while on his way to England was taken seriously ill, and died after an operation for acute goitre in Paris. The Princess Alexandra Statue was his last sculpture. <br /> <br /> Originally located in the grounds of the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, the statue was relocated to Alexandra in 1939 where it was installed in the pretty Jack Shiel Gardens where she is surrounded by beds of roses, her favourite flower. In 1994 the statue was unveiled under a new colonnade, which was financed under the Centennial Awards. <br /> <br /> Charles Summer was a regular exhibitor at Royal Academy exhibitions; more than 40 of his works were shown between 1849 and 1876. He was a competent sculptor who also created the figures on the ceiling of the council chamber of Melbourne’s Parliament House, a frieze of putti on the old Bank of New South Wales building (now located at Melbourne University) and the recumbent figure of Lady Macleay in Surrey. However it is the memorial to the explorers Burke and Wills on the corner of Collins and Swanston Streets in Melbourne’s heart that he is best known for.<br /> <br /> Born in 1845, Princess Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia was a Princess of Denmark; one of five sisters (two of whom would also became Queens of Norway and Russia). A beautiful and slender lady with perfect complexion and lovely mannerisms as befitting a queen, Alexandra was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1841 – 1910) the heir apparent of Queen Victoria when the Danish princess was just sixteen. They married eighteen months later in 1863 in the St George Chapel, Windsor Castle, the same year her father became Christian IX of Denmark and her brother, George, was appointed King of Greece. She was Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1901, the longest anyone has ever held that title, and became generally popular; her style of dress and bearing were copied by fashion-conscious women. On the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, Albert Edward became King-Emperor as Edward VII, with Alexandra as Queen-Empress Consort. From Edward's death in 1910 until her own death, she was the Queen Mother. She died of a heart attack just before her 80th birthday in 1925 and was buried in an elaborate tomb next to her husband in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.<br /> <br /> Alexandra is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located at the junction of the Goulburn Valley Highway (B340) and Maroondah Highway (B360), 26 kilometres west of Eildon. The town was settled in the late 1860s, with a Post Office opening on 15 March 1867 (known until 24 April 1867) as Redgate. The town was originally known as Redgate, or Red Gate Diggings. The current name either derives from Alexandra of Denmark (Queen’s Consort to King Edward VII of England) when given a stature of her to the shire; or from three men named Alexander (Alesander, McGregor, Alexander Don, and Alexander Luckie) who discovered gold in the area in 1866. Charles Jones born Herefordshire also discovered Gold on the Luckie Mine in 1866. He bought a Hotel with John Henry Osborne and was the proprietor of the New York and London Hotel Grant Street Alexandra. The railway to Alexandra arrived in the town via Yea from Tallarook in 1909, and closed on November 18, 1978. The Rubicon Tramway connected Alexandra with the village of Rubicon, at the junction of the Rubicon and Royston Rivers. Today many tourists pass through Alexandra on their way to the Mount Buller ski resort from Melbourne. The town contains the Timber Tramway and Museum (located at the Alexandra Railway Station), and the National Trust classified post office and law courts. There is a local market on the second Saturday of each month from September to May, an annual art show at Easter, an agricultural show and rose festival in November, and the annual Truck, Rod and Ute Show in June.</p> raaen99 princessalexandrastatue alexandrastatue princessofwalesstatue alexandraofdenmark queenalexandra princessalexandra alexandraprincessofwales kingsconsort queen ruler britishruler danish dane princess statue marblestatue femalestatue englishqueen danishprincess whitemarble italianmarble sculpture marblesculpture memorial seat crown tiara pearls drapery femaleform femalesculpture female woman royalty britishroyalfamily danishroyalfamily princessalexandracarolinemariecharlottelouisejulia sirwilliamjclarke sirwilliamclarke charlessummer 1878 1800s 1870s victorian victoriana edwardian edwardiana nineteenthcentury 19thcentury figure femalefigure art artwork artistdesigned commissioned commission alexandra jackshielgardens jackshielmemorialgardens victoria australia perkinsst perkinsstreet countryvictoria provincialvictoria countrytown town country garden grounds http://www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/8663860787/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/40262251@N03/">raaen99</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/8663860787/" title="The Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8262/8663860787_6d8a9f780b_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="The Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra" /></a></p> <p>The Princess Alexandra Statue, located in the Jack Shiel Gardens in the north eastern country town of Alexandra, is the work of English sculptor Charles Summers (1825 – 1878). The Princess Alexandra Statue is made of white Italian marble, and was completed in Rome as part of a commission for Sir William J. Clarke (1831 – 1897) in 1876. Sir William commissioned him to sculpt four large statues in marble of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and the then Prince and Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) for presentation to the Melbourne art gallery. These were completed in 1878. Soon afterwards Charles Summers while on his way to England was taken seriously ill, and died after an operation for acute goitre in Paris. The Princess Alexandra Statue was his last sculpture. <br /> <br /> Originally located in the grounds of the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, the statue was relocated to Alexandra in 1939 where it was installed in the pretty Jack Shiel Gardens where she is surrounded by beds of roses, her favourite flower. In 1994 the statue was unveiled under a new colonnade, which was financed under the Centennial Awards. <br /> <br /> Charles Summer was a regular exhibitor at Royal Academy exhibitions; more than 40 of his works were shown between 1849 and 1876. He was a competent sculptor who also created the figures on the ceiling of the council chamber of Melbourne’s Parliament House, a frieze of putti on the old Bank of New South Wales building (now located at Melbourne University) and the recumbent figure of Lady Macleay in Surrey. However it is the memorial to the explorers Burke and Wills on the corner of Collins and Swanston Streets in Melbourne’s heart that he is best known for.<br /> <br /> Born in 1845, Princess Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia was a Princess of Denmark; one of five sisters (two of whom would also became Queens of Norway and Russia). A beautiful and slender lady with perfect complexion and lovely mannerisms as befitting a queen, Alexandra was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1841 – 1910) the heir apparent of Queen Victoria when the Danish princess was just sixteen. They married eighteen months later in 1863 in the St George Chapel, Windsor Castle, the same year her father became Christian IX of Denmark and her brother, George, was appointed King of Greece. She was Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1901, the longest anyone has ever held that title, and became generally popular; her style of dress and bearing were copied by fashion-conscious women. On the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, Albert Edward became King-Emperor as Edward VII, with Alexandra as Queen-Empress Consort. From Edward's death in 1910 until her own death, she was the Queen Mother. She died of a heart attack just before her 80th birthday in 1925 and was buried in an elaborate tomb next to her husband in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.<br /> <br /> Alexandra is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located at the junction of the Goulburn Valley Highway (B340) and Maroondah Highway (B360), 26 kilometres west of Eildon. The town was settled in the late 1860s, with a Post Office opening on 15 March 1867 (known until 24 April 1867) as Redgate. The town was originally known as Redgate, or Red Gate Diggings. The current name either derives from Alexandra of Denmark (Queen’s Consort to King Edward VII of England) when given a stature of her to the shire; or from three men named Alexander (Alesander, McGregor, Alexander Don, and Alexander Luckie) who discovered gold in the area in 1866. Charles Jones born Herefordshire also discovered Gold on the Luckie Mine in 1866. He bought a Hotel with John Henry Osborne and was the proprietor of the New York and London Hotel Grant Street Alexandra. The railway to Alexandra arrived in the town via Yea from Tallarook in 1909, and closed on November 18, 1978. The Rubicon Tramway connected Alexandra with the village of Rubicon, at the junction of the Rubicon and Royston Rivers. Today many tourists pass through Alexandra on their way to the Mount Buller ski resort from Melbourne. The town contains the Timber Tramway and Museum (located at the Alexandra Railway Station), and the National Trust classified post office and law courts. There is a local market on the second Saturday of each month from September to May, an annual art show at Easter, an agricultural show and rose festival in November, and the annual Truck, Rod and Ute Show in June.</p> Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:56:03 -0700 2013-03-31T15:24:11-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (raaen99) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/8663860787 The Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra <p>The Princess Alexandra Statue, located in the Jack Shiel Gardens in the north eastern country town of Alexandra, is the work of English sculptor Charles Summers (1825 – 1878). The Princess Alexandra Statue is made of white Italian marble, and was completed in Rome as part of a commission for Sir William J. Clarke (1831 – 1897) in 1876. Sir William commissioned him to sculpt four large statues in marble of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and the then Prince and Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) for presentation to the Melbourne art gallery. These were completed in 1878. Soon afterwards Charles Summers while on his way to England was taken seriously ill, and died after an operation for acute goitre in Paris. The Princess Alexandra Statue was his last sculpture. <br /> <br /> Originally located in the grounds of the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, the statue was relocated to Alexandra in 1939 where it was installed in the pretty Jack Shiel Gardens where she is surrounded by beds of roses, her favourite flower. In 1994 the statue was unveiled under a new colonnade, which was financed under the Centennial Awards. <br /> <br /> Charles Summer was a regular exhibitor at Royal Academy exhibitions; more than 40 of his works were shown between 1849 and 1876. He was a competent sculptor who also created the figures on the ceiling of the council chamber of Melbourne’s Parliament House, a frieze of putti on the old Bank of New South Wales building (now located at Melbourne University) and the recumbent figure of Lady Macleay in Surrey. However it is the memorial to the explorers Burke and Wills on the corner of Collins and Swanston Streets in Melbourne’s heart that he is best known for.<br /> <br /> Born in 1845, Princess Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia was a Princess of Denmark; one of five sisters (two of whom would also became Queens of Norway and Russia). A beautiful and slender lady with perfect complexion and lovely mannerisms as befitting a queen, Alexandra was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1841 – 1910) the heir apparent of Queen Victoria when the Danish princess was just sixteen. They married eighteen months later in 1863 in the St George Chapel, Windsor Castle, the same year her father became Christian IX of Denmark and her brother, George, was appointed King of Greece. She was Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1901, the longest anyone has ever held that title, and became generally popular; her style of dress and bearing were copied by fashion-conscious women. On the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, Albert Edward became King-Emperor as Edward VII, with Alexandra as Queen-Empress Consort. From Edward's death in 1910 until her own death, she was the Queen Mother. She died of a heart attack just before her 80th birthday in 1925 and was buried in an elaborate tomb next to her husband in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.<br /> <br /> Alexandra is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located at the junction of the Goulburn Valley Highway (B340) and Maroondah Highway (B360), 26 kilometres west of Eildon. The town was settled in the late 1860s, with a Post Office opening on 15 March 1867 (known until 24 April 1867) as Redgate. The town was originally known as Redgate, or Red Gate Diggings. The current name either derives from Alexandra of Denmark (Queen’s Consort to King Edward VII of England) when given a stature of her to the shire; or from three men named Alexander (Alesander, McGregor, Alexander Don, and Alexander Luckie) who discovered gold in the area in 1866. Charles Jones born Herefordshire also discovered Gold on the Luckie Mine in 1866. He bought a Hotel with John Henry Osborne and was the proprietor of the New York and London Hotel Grant Street Alexandra. The railway to Alexandra arrived in the town via Yea from Tallarook in 1909, and closed on November 18, 1978. The Rubicon Tramway connected Alexandra with the village of Rubicon, at the junction of the Rubicon and Royston Rivers. Today many tourists pass through Alexandra on their way to the Mount Buller ski resort from Melbourne. The town contains the Timber Tramway and Museum (located at the Alexandra Railway Station), and the National Trust classified post office and law courts. There is a local market on the second Saturday of each month from September to May, an annual art show at Easter, an agricultural show and rose festival in November, and the annual Truck, Rod and Ute Show in June.</p> raaen99 sculpture woman tiara art statue female garden town artwork memorial princess seat country 19thcentury 1800s victorian australia victoria pearls queen alexandra victoriana danish figure crown dane commission ruler grounds royalty edwardian nineteenthcentury drapery 1870s commissioned femaleform marblestatue countryvictoria whitemarble femalefigure 1878 countrytown marblesculpture britishroyalfamily femalestatue queenalexandra italianmarble princessalexandra alexandraprincessofwales femalesculpture artistdesigned perkinsst edwardiana provincialvictoria danishroyalfamily perkinsstreet charlessummer kingsconsort alexandraofdenmark englishqueen danishprincess britishruler sirwilliamclarke princessalexandrastatue alexandrastatue princessofwalesstatue princessalexandracarolinemariecharlottelouisejulia sirwilliamjclarke jackshielgardens jackshielmemorialgardens http://www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/8663849641/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/40262251@N03/">raaen99</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/8663849641/" title="The Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8242/8663849641_974a5e59d0_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="The Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra" /></a></p> <p>The Princess Alexandra Statue, located in the Jack Shiel Gardens in the north eastern country town of Alexandra, is the work of English sculptor Charles Summers (1825 – 1878). The Princess Alexandra Statue is made of white Italian marble, and was completed in Rome as part of a commission for Sir William J. Clarke (1831 – 1897) in 1876. Sir William commissioned him to sculpt four large statues in marble of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and the then Prince and Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) for presentation to the Melbourne art gallery. These were completed in 1878. Soon afterwards Charles Summers while on his way to England was taken seriously ill, and died after an operation for acute goitre in Paris. The Princess Alexandra Statue was his last sculpture. <br /> <br /> Originally located in the grounds of the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, the statue was relocated to Alexandra in 1939 where it was installed in the pretty Jack Shiel Gardens where she is surrounded by beds of roses, her favourite flower. In 1994 the statue was unveiled under a new colonnade, which was financed under the Centennial Awards. <br /> <br /> Charles Summer was a regular exhibitor at Royal Academy exhibitions; more than 40 of his works were shown between 1849 and 1876. He was a competent sculptor who also created the figures on the ceiling of the council chamber of Melbourne’s Parliament House, a frieze of putti on the old Bank of New South Wales building (now located at Melbourne University) and the recumbent figure of Lady Macleay in Surrey. However it is the memorial to the explorers Burke and Wills on the corner of Collins and Swanston Streets in Melbourne’s heart that he is best known for.<br /> <br /> Born in 1845, Princess Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia was a Princess of Denmark; one of five sisters (two of whom would also became Queens of Norway and Russia). A beautiful and slender lady with perfect complexion and lovely mannerisms as befitting a queen, Alexandra was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1841 – 1910) the heir apparent of Queen Victoria when the Danish princess was just sixteen. They married eighteen months later in 1863 in the St George Chapel, Windsor Castle, the same year her father became Christian IX of Denmark and her brother, George, was appointed King of Greece. She was Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1901, the longest anyone has ever held that title, and became generally popular; her style of dress and bearing were copied by fashion-conscious women. On the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, Albert Edward became King-Emperor as Edward VII, with Alexandra as Queen-Empress Consort. From Edward's death in 1910 until her own death, she was the Queen Mother. She died of a heart attack just before her 80th birthday in 1925 and was buried in an elaborate tomb next to her husband in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.<br /> <br /> Alexandra is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located at the junction of the Goulburn Valley Highway (B340) and Maroondah Highway (B360), 26 kilometres west of Eildon. The town was settled in the late 1860s, with a Post Office opening on 15 March 1867 (known until 24 April 1867) as Redgate. The town was originally known as Redgate, or Red Gate Diggings. The current name either derives from Alexandra of Denmark (Queen’s Consort to King Edward VII of England) when given a stature of her to the shire; or from three men named Alexander (Alesander, McGregor, Alexander Don, and Alexander Luckie) who discovered gold in the area in 1866. Charles Jones born Herefordshire also discovered Gold on the Luckie Mine in 1866. He bought a Hotel with John Henry Osborne and was the proprietor of the New York and London Hotel Grant Street Alexandra. The railway to Alexandra arrived in the town via Yea from Tallarook in 1909, and closed on November 18, 1978. The Rubicon Tramway connected Alexandra with the village of Rubicon, at the junction of the Rubicon and Royston Rivers. Today many tourists pass through Alexandra on their way to the Mount Buller ski resort from Melbourne. The town contains the Timber Tramway and Museum (located at the Alexandra Railway Station), and the National Trust classified post office and law courts. There is a local market on the second Saturday of each month from September to May, an annual art show at Easter, an agricultural show and rose festival in November, and the annual Truck, Rod and Ute Show in June.</p> Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:55:56 -0700 2013-03-31T16:18:06-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (raaen99) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/8663849641 The Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra <p>The Princess Alexandra Statue, located in the Jack Shiel Gardens in the north eastern country town of Alexandra, is the work of English sculptor Charles Summers (1825 – 1878). The Princess Alexandra Statue is made of white Italian marble, and was completed in Rome as part of a commission for Sir William J. Clarke (1831 – 1897) in 1876. Sir William commissioned him to sculpt four large statues in marble of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and the then Prince and Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) for presentation to the Melbourne art gallery. These were completed in 1878. Soon afterwards Charles Summers while on his way to England was taken seriously ill, and died after an operation for acute goitre in Paris. The Princess Alexandra Statue was his last sculpture. <br /> <br /> Originally located in the grounds of the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, the statue was relocated to Alexandra in 1939 where it was installed in the pretty Jack Shiel Gardens where she is surrounded by beds of roses, her favourite flower. In 1994 the statue was unveiled under a new colonnade, which was financed under the Centennial Awards. <br /> <br /> Charles Summer was a regular exhibitor at Royal Academy exhibitions; more than 40 of his works were shown between 1849 and 1876. He was a competent sculptor who also created the figures on the ceiling of the council chamber of Melbourne’s Parliament House, a frieze of putti on the old Bank of New South Wales building (now located at Melbourne University) and the recumbent figure of Lady Macleay in Surrey. However it is the memorial to the explorers Burke and Wills on the corner of Collins and Swanston Streets in Melbourne’s heart that he is best known for.<br /> <br /> Born in 1845, Princess Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia was a Princess of Denmark; one of five sisters (two of whom would also became Queens of Norway and Russia). A beautiful and slender lady with perfect complexion and lovely mannerisms as befitting a queen, Alexandra was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1841 – 1910) the heir apparent of Queen Victoria when the Danish princess was just sixteen. They married eighteen months later in 1863 in the St George Chapel, Windsor Castle, the same year her father became Christian IX of Denmark and her brother, George, was appointed King of Greece. She was Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1901, the longest anyone has ever held that title, and became generally popular; her style of dress and bearing were copied by fashion-conscious women. On the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, Albert Edward became King-Emperor as Edward VII, with Alexandra as Queen-Empress Consort. From Edward's death in 1910 until her own death, she was the Queen Mother. She died of a heart attack just before her 80th birthday in 1925 and was buried in an elaborate tomb next to her husband in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.<br /> <br /> Alexandra is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located at the junction of the Goulburn Valley Highway (B340) and Maroondah Highway (B360), 26 kilometres west of Eildon. The town was settled in the late 1860s, with a Post Office opening on 15 March 1867 (known until 24 April 1867) as Redgate. The town was originally known as Redgate, or Red Gate Diggings. The current name either derives from Alexandra of Denmark (Queen’s Consort to King Edward VII of England) when given a stature of her to the shire; or from three men named Alexander (Alesander, McGregor, Alexander Don, and Alexander Luckie) who discovered gold in the area in 1866. Charles Jones born Herefordshire also discovered Gold on the Luckie Mine in 1866. He bought a Hotel with John Henry Osborne and was the proprietor of the New York and London Hotel Grant Street Alexandra. The railway to Alexandra arrived in the town via Yea from Tallarook in 1909, and closed on November 18, 1978. The Rubicon Tramway connected Alexandra with the village of Rubicon, at the junction of the Rubicon and Royston Rivers. Today many tourists pass through Alexandra on their way to the Mount Buller ski resort from Melbourne. The town contains the Timber Tramway and Museum (located at the Alexandra Railway Station), and the National Trust classified post office and law courts. There is a local market on the second Saturday of each month from September to May, an annual art show at Easter, an agricultural show and rose festival in November, and the annual Truck, Rod and Ute Show in June.</p> raaen99 sculpture woman tiara art statue female garden town artwork memorial princess seat country 19thcentury 1800s victorian australia victoria pearls queen alexandra victoriana danish figure crown dane commission ruler grounds royalty edwardian nineteenthcentury drapery 1870s commissioned femaleform marblestatue countryvictoria whitemarble femalefigure 1878 countrytown marblesculpture britishroyalfamily femalestatue queenalexandra italianmarble princessalexandra alexandraprincessofwales femalesculpture artistdesigned perkinsst edwardiana provincialvictoria danishroyalfamily perkinsstreet charlessummer kingsconsort alexandraofdenmark englishqueen danishprincess britishruler sirwilliamclarke princessalexandrastatue alexandrastatue princessofwalesstatue princessalexandracarolinemariecharlottelouisejulia sirwilliamjclarke jackshielgardens jackshielmemorialgardens http://www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/8664948694/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/40262251@N03/">raaen99</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/8664948694/" title="The History Plaque of the Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8252/8664948694_e4558572d0_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="The History Plaque of the Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra" /></a></p> <p>The Princess Alexandra Statue, located in the Jack Shiel Gardens in the north eastern country town of Alexandra, is the work of English sculptor Charles Summers (1825 – 1878). The Princess Alexandra Statue is made of white Italian marble, and was completed in Rome as part of a commission for Sir William J. Clarke (1831 – 1897) in 1876. Sir William commissioned him to sculpt four large statues in marble of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and the then Prince and Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) for presentation to the Melbourne art gallery. These were completed in 1878. Soon afterwards Charles Summers while on his way to England was taken seriously ill, and died after an operation for acute goitre in Paris. The Princess Alexandra Statue was his last sculpture. <br /> <br /> Originally located in the grounds of the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, the statue was relocated to Alexandra in 1939 where it was installed in the pretty Jack Shiel Gardens where she is surrounded by beds of roses, her favourite flower. In 1994 the statue was unveiled under a new colonnade, which was financed under the Centennial Awards. <br /> <br /> Charles Summer was a regular exhibitor at Royal Academy exhibitions; more than 40 of his works were shown between 1849 and 1876. He was a competent sculptor who also created the figures on the ceiling of the council chamber of Melbourne’s Parliament House, a frieze of putti on the old Bank of New South Wales building (now located at Melbourne University) and the recumbent figure of Lady Macleay in Surrey. However it is the memorial to the explorers Burke and Wills on the corner of Collins and Swanston Streets in Melbourne’s heart that he is best known for.<br /> <br /> Born in 1845, Princess Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia was a Princess of Denmark; one of five sisters (two of whom would also became Queens of Norway and Russia). A beautiful and slender lady with perfect complexion and lovely mannerisms as befitting a queen, Alexandra was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1841 – 1910) the heir apparent of Queen Victoria when the Danish princess was just sixteen. They married eighteen months later in 1863 in the St George Chapel, Windsor Castle, the same year her father became Christian IX of Denmark and her brother, George, was appointed King of Greece. She was Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1901, the longest anyone has ever held that title, and became generally popular; her style of dress and bearing were copied by fashion-conscious women. On the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, Albert Edward became King-Emperor as Edward VII, with Alexandra as Queen-Empress Consort. From Edward's death in 1910 until her own death, she was the Queen Mother. She died of a heart attack just before her 80th birthday in 1925 and was buried in an elaborate tomb next to her husband in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.<br /> <br /> Alexandra is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located at the junction of the Goulburn Valley Highway (B340) and Maroondah Highway (B360), 26 kilometres west of Eildon. The town was settled in the late 1860s, with a Post Office opening on 15 March 1867 (known until 24 April 1867) as Redgate. The town was originally known as Redgate, or Red Gate Diggings. The current name either derives from Alexandra of Denmark (Queen’s Consort to King Edward VII of England) when given a stature of her to the shire; or from three men named Alexander (Alesander, McGregor, Alexander Don, and Alexander Luckie) who discovered gold in the area in 1866. Charles Jones born Herefordshire also discovered Gold on the Luckie Mine in 1866. He bought a Hotel with John Henry Osborne and was the proprietor of the New York and London Hotel Grant Street Alexandra. The railway to Alexandra arrived in the town via Yea from Tallarook in 1909, and closed on November 18, 1978. The Rubicon Tramway connected Alexandra with the village of Rubicon, at the junction of the Rubicon and Royston Rivers. Today many tourists pass through Alexandra on their way to the Mount Buller ski resort from Melbourne. The town contains the Timber Tramway and Museum (located at the Alexandra Railway Station), and the National Trust classified post office and law courts. There is a local market on the second Saturday of each month from September to May, an annual art show at Easter, an agricultural show and rose festival in November, and the annual Truck, Rod and Ute Show in June.</p> Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:55:55 -0700 2013-03-31T15:21:13-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (raaen99) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/8664948694 The History Plaque of the Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra <p>The Princess Alexandra Statue, located in the Jack Shiel Gardens in the north eastern country town of Alexandra, is the work of English sculptor Charles Summers (1825 – 1878). The Princess Alexandra Statue is made of white Italian marble, and was completed in Rome as part of a commission for Sir William J. Clarke (1831 – 1897) in 1876. Sir William commissioned him to sculpt four large statues in marble of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and the then Prince and Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) for presentation to the Melbourne art gallery. These were completed in 1878. Soon afterwards Charles Summers while on his way to England was taken seriously ill, and died after an operation for acute goitre in Paris. The Princess Alexandra Statue was his last sculpture. <br /> <br /> Originally located in the grounds of the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, the statue was relocated to Alexandra in 1939 where it was installed in the pretty Jack Shiel Gardens where she is surrounded by beds of roses, her favourite flower. In 1994 the statue was unveiled under a new colonnade, which was financed under the Centennial Awards. <br /> <br /> Charles Summer was a regular exhibitor at Royal Academy exhibitions; more than 40 of his works were shown between 1849 and 1876. He was a competent sculptor who also created the figures on the ceiling of the council chamber of Melbourne’s Parliament House, a frieze of putti on the old Bank of New South Wales building (now located at Melbourne University) and the recumbent figure of Lady Macleay in Surrey. However it is the memorial to the explorers Burke and Wills on the corner of Collins and Swanston Streets in Melbourne’s heart that he is best known for.<br /> <br /> Born in 1845, Princess Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia was a Princess of Denmark; one of five sisters (two of whom would also became Queens of Norway and Russia). A beautiful and slender lady with perfect complexion and lovely mannerisms as befitting a queen, Alexandra was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1841 – 1910) the heir apparent of Queen Victoria when the Danish princess was just sixteen. They married eighteen months later in 1863 in the St George Chapel, Windsor Castle, the same year her father became Christian IX of Denmark and her brother, George, was appointed King of Greece. She was Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1901, the longest anyone has ever held that title, and became generally popular; her style of dress and bearing were copied by fashion-conscious women. On the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, Albert Edward became King-Emperor as Edward VII, with Alexandra as Queen-Empress Consort. From Edward's death in 1910 until her own death, she was the Queen Mother. She died of a heart attack just before her 80th birthday in 1925 and was buried in an elaborate tomb next to her husband in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.<br /> <br /> Alexandra is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located at the junction of the Goulburn Valley Highway (B340) and Maroondah Highway (B360), 26 kilometres west of Eildon. The town was settled in the late 1860s, with a Post Office opening on 15 March 1867 (known until 24 April 1867) as Redgate. The town was originally known as Redgate, or Red Gate Diggings. The current name either derives from Alexandra of Denmark (Queen’s Consort to King Edward VII of England) when given a stature of her to the shire; or from three men named Alexander (Alesander, McGregor, Alexander Don, and Alexander Luckie) who discovered gold in the area in 1866. Charles Jones born Herefordshire also discovered Gold on the Luckie Mine in 1866. He bought a Hotel with John Henry Osborne and was the proprietor of the New York and London Hotel Grant Street Alexandra. The railway to Alexandra arrived in the town via Yea from Tallarook in 1909, and closed on November 18, 1978. The Rubicon Tramway connected Alexandra with the village of Rubicon, at the junction of the Rubicon and Royston Rivers. Today many tourists pass through Alexandra on their way to the Mount Buller ski resort from Melbourne. The town contains the Timber Tramway and Museum (located at the Alexandra Railway Station), and the National Trust classified post office and law courts. There is a local market on the second Saturday of each month from September to May, an annual art show at Easter, an agricultural show and rose festival in November, and the annual Truck, Rod and Ute Show in June.</p> raaen99 sculpture woman tiara art statue female garden town artwork memorial princess seat country 19thcentury 1800s victorian australia victoria pearls queen alexandra victoriana danish figure crown dane commission ruler grounds royalty edwardian nineteenthcentury drapery 1870s commissioned femaleform marblestatue countryvictoria whitemarble femalefigure 1878 countrytown marblesculpture britishroyalfamily femalestatue queenalexandra italianmarble princessalexandra alexandraprincessofwales femalesculpture artistdesigned perkinsst edwardiana provincialvictoria danishroyalfamily perkinsstreet charlessummer kingsconsort alexandraofdenmark englishqueen danishprincess britishruler sirwilliamclarke princessalexandrastatue alexandrastatue princessofwalesstatue princessalexandracarolinemariecharlottelouisejulia sirwilliamjclarke jackshielgardens jackshielmemorialgardens http://www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/8664949276/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/40262251@N03/">raaen99</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/8664949276/" title="The Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8252/8664949276_5e73c37c3c_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="The Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra" /></a></p> <p>The Princess Alexandra Statue, located in the Jack Shiel Gardens in the north eastern country town of Alexandra, is the work of English sculptor Charles Summers (1825 – 1878). The Princess Alexandra Statue is made of white Italian marble, and was completed in Rome as part of a commission for Sir William J. Clarke (1831 – 1897) in 1876. Sir William commissioned him to sculpt four large statues in marble of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and the then Prince and Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) for presentation to the Melbourne art gallery. These were completed in 1878. Soon afterwards Charles Summers while on his way to England was taken seriously ill, and died after an operation for acute goitre in Paris. The Princess Alexandra Statue was his last sculpture. <br /> <br /> Originally located in the grounds of the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, the statue was relocated to Alexandra in 1939 where it was installed in the pretty Jack Shiel Gardens where she is surrounded by beds of roses, her favourite flower. In 1994 the statue was unveiled under a new colonnade, which was financed under the Centennial Awards. <br /> <br /> Charles Summer was a regular exhibitor at Royal Academy exhibitions; more than 40 of his works were shown between 1849 and 1876. He was a competent sculptor who also created the figures on the ceiling of the council chamber of Melbourne’s Parliament House, a frieze of putti on the old Bank of New South Wales building (now located at Melbourne University) and the recumbent figure of Lady Macleay in Surrey. However it is the memorial to the explorers Burke and Wills on the corner of Collins and Swanston Streets in Melbourne’s heart that he is best known for.<br /> <br /> Born in 1845, Princess Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia was a Princess of Denmark; one of five sisters (two of whom would also became Queens of Norway and Russia). A beautiful and slender lady with perfect complexion and lovely mannerisms as befitting a queen, Alexandra was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1841 – 1910) the heir apparent of Queen Victoria when the Danish princess was just sixteen. They married eighteen months later in 1863 in the St George Chapel, Windsor Castle, the same year her father became Christian IX of Denmark and her brother, George, was appointed King of Greece. She was Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1901, the longest anyone has ever held that title, and became generally popular; her style of dress and bearing were copied by fashion-conscious women. On the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, Albert Edward became King-Emperor as Edward VII, with Alexandra as Queen-Empress Consort. From Edward's death in 1910 until her own death, she was the Queen Mother. She died of a heart attack just before her 80th birthday in 1925 and was buried in an elaborate tomb next to her husband in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.<br /> <br /> Alexandra is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located at the junction of the Goulburn Valley Highway (B340) and Maroondah Highway (B360), 26 kilometres west of Eildon. The town was settled in the late 1860s, with a Post Office opening on 15 March 1867 (known until 24 April 1867) as Redgate. The town was originally known as Redgate, or Red Gate Diggings. The current name either derives from Alexandra of Denmark (Queen’s Consort to King Edward VII of England) when given a stature of her to the shire; or from three men named Alexander (Alesander, McGregor, Alexander Don, and Alexander Luckie) who discovered gold in the area in 1866. Charles Jones born Herefordshire also discovered Gold on the Luckie Mine in 1866. He bought a Hotel with John Henry Osborne and was the proprietor of the New York and London Hotel Grant Street Alexandra. The railway to Alexandra arrived in the town via Yea from Tallarook in 1909, and closed on November 18, 1978. The Rubicon Tramway connected Alexandra with the village of Rubicon, at the junction of the Rubicon and Royston Rivers. Today many tourists pass through Alexandra on their way to the Mount Buller ski resort from Melbourne. The town contains the Timber Tramway and Museum (located at the Alexandra Railway Station), and the National Trust classified post office and law courts. There is a local market on the second Saturday of each month from September to May, an annual art show at Easter, an agricultural show and rose festival in November, and the annual Truck, Rod and Ute Show in June.</p> Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:55:56 -0700 2013-03-31T16:17:57-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (raaen99) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/8664949276 The Princess Alexandra Statue – Jack Shiel Gardens, Perkins Street, Alexandra <p>The Princess Alexandra Statue, located in the Jack Shiel Gardens in the north eastern country town of Alexandra, is the work of English sculptor Charles Summers (1825 – 1878). The Princess Alexandra Statue is made of white Italian marble, and was completed in Rome as part of a commission for Sir William J. Clarke (1831 – 1897) in 1876. Sir William commissioned him to sculpt four large statues in marble of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and the then Prince and Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) for presentation to the Melbourne art gallery. These were completed in 1878. Soon afterwards Charles Summers while on his way to England was taken seriously ill, and died after an operation for acute goitre in Paris. The Princess Alexandra Statue was his last sculpture. <br /> <br /> Originally located in the grounds of the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, the statue was relocated to Alexandra in 1939 where it was installed in the pretty Jack Shiel Gardens where she is surrounded by beds of roses, her favourite flower. In 1994 the statue was unveiled under a new colonnade, which was financed under the Centennial Awards. <br /> <br /> Charles Summer was a regular exhibitor at Royal Academy exhibitions; more than 40 of his works were shown between 1849 and 1876. He was a competent sculptor who also created the figures on the ceiling of the council chamber of Melbourne’s Parliament House, a frieze of putti on the old Bank of New South Wales building (now located at Melbourne University) and the recumbent figure of Lady Macleay in Surrey. However it is the memorial to the explorers Burke and Wills on the corner of Collins and Swanston Streets in Melbourne’s heart that he is best known for.<br /> <br /> Born in 1845, Princess Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia was a Princess of Denmark; one of five sisters (two of whom would also became Queens of Norway and Russia). A beautiful and slender lady with perfect complexion and lovely mannerisms as befitting a queen, Alexandra was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1841 – 1910) the heir apparent of Queen Victoria when the Danish princess was just sixteen. They married eighteen months later in 1863 in the St George Chapel, Windsor Castle, the same year her father became Christian IX of Denmark and her brother, George, was appointed King of Greece. She was Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1901, the longest anyone has ever held that title, and became generally popular; her style of dress and bearing were copied by fashion-conscious women. On the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, Albert Edward became King-Emperor as Edward VII, with Alexandra as Queen-Empress Consort. From Edward's death in 1910 until her own death, she was the Queen Mother. She died of a heart attack just before her 80th birthday in 1925 and was buried in an elaborate tomb next to her husband in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.<br /> <br /> Alexandra is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located at the junction of the Goulburn Valley Highway (B340) and Maroondah Highway (B360), 26 kilometres west of Eildon. The town was settled in the late 1860s, with a Post Office opening on 15 March 1867 (known until 24 April 1867) as Redgate. The town was originally known as Redgate, or Red Gate Diggings. The current name either derives from Alexandra of Denmark (Queen’s Consort to King Edward VII of England) when given a stature of her to the shire; or from three men named Alexander (Alesander, McGregor, Alexander Don, and Alexander Luckie) who discovered gold in the area in 1866. Charles Jones born Herefordshire also discovered Gold on the Luckie Mine in 1866. He bought a Hotel with John Henry Osborne and was the proprietor of the New York and London Hotel Grant Street Alexandra. The railway to Alexandra arrived in the town via Yea from Tallarook in 1909, and closed on November 18, 1978. The Rubicon Tramway connected Alexandra with the village of Rubicon, at the junction of the Rubicon and Royston Rivers. Today many tourists pass through Alexandra on their way to the Mount Buller ski resort from Melbourne. The town contains the Timber Tramway and Museum (located at the Alexandra Railway Station), and the National Trust classified post office and law courts. There is a local market on the second Saturday of each month from September to May, an annual art show at Easter, an agricultural show and rose festival in November, and the annual Truck, Rod and Ute Show in June.</p> raaen99 sculpture woman tiara art statue female garden town artwork memorial princess seat country 19thcentury 1800s victorian australia victoria pearls queen alexandra victoriana danish figure crown dane commission ruler grounds royalty edwardian nineteenthcentury drapery 1870s commissioned femaleform marblestatue countryvictoria whitemarble femalefigure 1878 countrytown marblesculpture britishroyalfamily femalestatue queenalexandra italianmarble princessalexandra alexandraprincessofwales femalesculpture artistdesigned perkinsst edwardiana provincialvictoria danishroyalfamily perkinsstreet charlessummer kingsconsort alexandraofdenmark englishqueen danishprincess britishruler sirwilliamclarke princessalexandrastatue alexandrastatue princessofwalesstatue princessalexandracarolinemariecharlottelouisejulia sirwilliamjclarke jackshielgardens jackshielmemorialgardens