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Latitude: 57.0397 / 57°2'22"N
Longitude: -3.2309 / 3°13'51"W
OS Eastings: 325404
OS Northings: 794965
OS Grid: NO254949
Mapcode National: GBR W6.BK7C
Mapcode Global: WH6MC.BBQ3
Plus Code: 9C9R2QQ9+VJ
Entry Name: Statue Of Florentine Boar, Balmoral Castle
Listing Name: Balmoral Castle, Statue of Florentine Boar
Listing Date: 12 March 2010
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 400424
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB51492
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200400424
Location: Crathie and Braemar
County: Aberdeenshire
Electoral Ward: Aboyne, Upper Deeside and Donside
Parish: Crathie And Braemar
Traditional County: Aberdeenshire
Tagged with: Statue
Circa 1855, painted 1929. Bronze, life-size statue of wild boar seated on haunches, after example at Florence (Palazzo Signoria?), sited by copse to S of Castle.
A Group with Balmoral Castle, Chamois Deer Statue, Putto Fountain on Eastern Parterre, Roe Deer Statue and the Shell Drinking Fountain in Sunken Garden.
The Inventory quotes the Gardeners' Chronicle of 1876, stating that there were originally two boars, each sited in the centre of a terrace to the west of the Castle. The Simpson painting shows one boar at SW corner of western parterre. The Royal Archive notes that in June 1929 stags, boar, chamois and roe deer sited to the west of the Castle were painted. Significant component of castle's immediate foreground.
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