What they said

Thank you Sir Edwin. England at last has “done her duty”

‘Punch’ cartoon of 1867 depicting Admiral Nelson acknowledging Landseer’s accomplishment

By the nobility of the treatment and the majesty of the pose… it was freely confessed that Pillar and Lions together formed the most magnificent monument in the metropolis

Landseer biographer James A. Manson

The lions in Trafalgar Square are for me the centre of London… the only monument in this vast capital worthy of a second visit… Did such a work exist now in Venice, what immense folios would be issued about it!

Richard Jefferies in ‘The Toilers of the Field’ (1892)