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In May 1822 he paid a visit to Naples, to superintend the construction of wax moulds for an equestrian statue of the perjured Bourbon king Ferdinand VII.
An equestrian statue was erected to his memory on the Heldenplatz in Vienna in 1860.
Francesco's successor Ludovico Sforza, commissioned Leonardo Da Vinci to design an equestrian statue as part of a monument to Francesco I Sforza.
According to Cassius Dio a gigantic equestrian statue was erected to Hadrian after his death.
In the centre of the High Street is the Scots baronial style Town Hall, built in 1886, and the east end has an equestrian statue, known as " the Horse ", erected in 1914.
The Apotheosis of St. Louis is an equestrian statue of the saint, by Charles Henry Niehaus, that stands in front of the Saint Louis Art Museum in Forest Park.
Magdeburger Reiter, 1240, the first equestrian statue north of the Alps
An equestrian statue of Saint Wenceslaus and other patrons of Bohemia ( St. Adalbert, St. Ludmila, St. Prokop and St. Agnes of Bohemia ) is located on Wenceslaus Square in Prague.
There is a similar great legend in Prague which says that when the Motherland is in danger or in its darkest times and close to ruin, the equestrian statue of King Wenceslaus in Wenceslaus Square will come to life, raise the army sleeping in Blaník, and upon crossing the Charles Bridge his horse will stumble and trip over a stone, revealing the legendary sword of Bruncvík.
Presidential Palace, Warsaw | Presidential Palace on Krakowskie Przedmieście in Warsaw, with equestrian statue of Prince Józef Poniatowski by Bertel Thorvaldsen.
Major memorials to Sherman include the gilded bronze equestrian statue by Augustus Saint-Gaudens at the main entrance to Central Park in New York City and the major monument by Carl Rohl-Smith near President's Park in Washington, D. C. Other posthumous tributes include the naming of the World War II M4 Sherman tank and the " General Sherman " Giant Sequoia tree, the most massive documented single-trunk tree in the world.
The principal squares of Reims include the Place Royale, with a statue of Louis XV, and the Place Cardinal-Luçon, with an equestrian statue of Joan of Arc.
The city hall ( hôtel de ville ), erected in the 17th century and enlarged in the 19th, features a pediment with an equestrian statue of Louis XIII ( reigned 1610 to 1643 ).
In 1998, one of the last monuments erected at Gettysburg National Military Park was dedicated as a belated tribute to Longstreet, an equestrian statue by sculptor Gary Casteel.
* Donatello's magnificent equestrian statue of the Venetian general Gattamelata ( Erasmo da Narni ) can be found on the piazza in front of the Basilica di Sant ' Antonio da Padova.
* In 1904, the city commissioned an equestrian statue of Howard by the eminent French sculptor Emmanuel Frémiet and installed it at Washington Square, Baltimore.
His plans reflected the nationalistic spirit of the time, and called for a structure adorned with six equestrian and 31 pedestrian statues of colossal proportions, crowned by a statue of Abraham Lincoln.
The site of the cross is now occupied by an equestrian statue of King Charles I.
The month before, the bronze equestrian statue of Charles, on a pedestal of carved Portland stone was given Grade I listed protection.
Edme Bouchardon's equestrian statue of Louis XV was originally conceived to commemorate the monarch's victorious role in the War of the Austrian Succession ( 1740 – 48 ) and artistically executed to display a benign representation of the king as peacemaker.
An equestrian statue of Edward VII in Queen's Park ( Toronto ) | Queen's Park, Toronto
To the west, the completion of the Arc de Triomphe in 1836 on the Place de l ' Étoile at the western end of the Champs Élysées formed the far point of this line of perspective, which now starts at the equestrian statue of Louis XIV placed by I. M.
* A bronze equestrian sculpture of Houston is located in Hermann Park in Houston, Texas This statue depicts Houston atop his horse with a single hand out stretched pointing directly towards San Jacinto.
Thorvaldsen produced some striking and affecting statues of historic figures, including two in Warsaw, Poland: an equestrian statue of Prince Józef Poniatowski that now stands before the Presidential Palace ; and the seated Nicolaus Copernicus, before the Polish Academy of Sciences building — both located on Warsaw's Krakowskie Przedmieście.

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Three notable descendants of Augustus are his grandson, the notorious anthropologist, eugenicist, anti-Semite and detainee in 1940 under Defence Regulation 18B George Pitt-Rivers, his great-grandson, the anthropologist and ethnographer, Julian A. Pitt-Rivers, and his great-great-grandson, William Fox-Pitt, the equestrian.
* Henry Kirke Brown ( 1814 – 1886 ), sculptor, most notably for the equestrian statues of Winfield Scott in Scott Circle, Washington, D. C., and George Washington at Union Square in New York City
In 1910, President William Howard Taft and the widowed Elizabeth Bacon unveiled an equestrian statue of Custer ( George Armstrong Custer Equestrian Monument ) that now rests at the corner of Elm Street and Monroe Street.
* George Washington ( 1864 ) in the Boston Public Garden, an equestrian statue
and wide, in an area that would lie between the Capitol building and an equestrian statue of George Washington to be placed directly south of the White House ( see L ' Enfant Plan ).
In his native Glasgow he is commemorated by a statue in George Square, and in England by a monument in St Paul's Cathedral and an equestrian statue at Shorncliffe.
Of his equestrian statues the most famous are those of Sir Thomas Munro in Calcutta, the Duke of Wellington in front of the London Exchange and one of King George IV in Trafalgar Square.
* Matthew Cotes Wyatt – Bronze equestrian statue of George III
An equestrian statue of Victoria of the United Kingdom | Queen Victoria stands in George Square.
In the United States, the first three full-scale equestrian sculptures were Clark Mills ' Andrew Jackson ( 1852 ), Henry Kirke Brown's George Washington ( 1856 ) for Union Square and Thomas Crawford's Washington in Richmond, Virginia ( 1858 ).
In 1829, a bronze equestrian statue of George IV was commissioned from Sir Francis Chantrey, with the intention of placing it on top of the arch.
In 1843 the equestrian statue of George IV was installed on one of the pedestals in Trafalgar Square.
On August 21, 1770, the British government erected a 4, 000 pound ( 1, 800 kg ) gilded lead equestrian statue of King George III in Bowling Green ; the King was dressed in Roman garb in the style of the Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius.
The work is surmounted by a plinth, on which stands an equestrian statue of George Washington.
Standing at the entrance is an equestrian statue of George I, the oldest public sculpture in Birmingham.
Union Square is noted for its impressive equestrian statue of U. S. President George Washington, modeled by Henry Kirke Brown and unveiled in 1856, the first public sculpture erected in New York City since the equestrian statue of George III in 1770, and the first American equestrian sculpture cast in bronze.
* Clark Mills-Lieutenant General George Washington ( equestrian statue, Washington, D. C .)
Where possible, George School competes in the Friends School League, but in certain sports, such as equestrian, football, and swimming, this is not possible due to the small number of league members that also participate.
When worn at equestrian events, boots of equestrian origin such as jodhpur boots, George boots and Chelsea boots are also acceptable.

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