# Our Marble Tribute

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Dr Ann Saunders FSA
- Year: 2005
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: History, Literature and writing, Art, architecture and design
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/our-marble-tribute)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Between 1795 and 1815, the British Government spent an amazing £110,575 on thirty-three marble monuments to the heroes of the wars against Napoleonic France. These now people the aisles, crypt and walls of St Paul¹s Cathedral, and visitors pass them by, pausing only to stare with incomprehension, or to giggle. These tributes in stone, many of them fully life-sized, are worth more than that; they form a history book, provide a gallery of early nineteenth-century English sculpture, and repay time spent in examination and contemplation.

## Lectures

1. [Our Marble Tribute](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/our-marble-tribute/dfb6f81ac6c9) (YouTube)