Study for the casting of the Sforza Monument Size:XS: 30 x 20cm 'Mackerel '

'Mackerel '

There was vigorous and vociferous opposition to this plan from the Conservative opposition here represented by Disraeli seated on a small donkey-drawn cart

Between 1630 and 1635

Plate 34 from Museum Leverianum containing select specimens from the museum of the late Sir Ashton Lever

Study for the casting of the Sforza Monument Size:XS: 30 x 20cm 'Mackerel 'Study for the casting of the Sforza Monument, c1493 (1954). In the 1480s Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, commissioned Leonardo da Vinci to produce a great bronze equestrian statue of his father and predecessor, Francesco. Leonardo created a life sized clay model of the statue, but it was never completed as in 1494 Ludovico used the 70 tons of bronze set aside for it to manufacture cannon to fight the invading French. Found in the collection of the