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Statue Of Florentine Boar, Balmoral Castle

A Category B Listed Building in Aboyne, Upper Deeside and Donside, Aberdeenshire

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Coordinates

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

Also known as: Balmoral Castle, Statue Of Florentine Boar

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

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Description

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.

Statement of Interest

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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