Moorcroft Trafalgar Square Plaque

H 28.00 x W 38.00 x D 2.00 cm

Designed by Paul Hilditch

LTD ED 15

Frills, flounces, furbelows and top hats, the symbol of respectability for the 19th-century middle classes, adorn society ladies and gentlemen in Trafalgar Square, as buses and ladies pushing perambulators weave their way through the crowds. A solitary figure of a man wearing a billboard is vying for their attention amid the hustle and bustle of the season’s offerings.

Trafalgar Square is named after Britain’s victory in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, where war hero Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson was killed during the battle on his ship, HMS Victory. Whilst Nelson's contribution was remembered with Nelson’s Column, completed in 1843, a key feature of the square, the Moorcroft designer sits him to the back left of his cityscape, as if perched on the crow’s nest, discreetly pervading all.

Paul is skilled at catching period drama, and rings it all with the impressive buildings that flank either side of the square, with the National Gallery given sweeping prominence, its enormous pillars, saved from the demolished Prince Regent’s Palace, standing proud to welcome all through its doors. Moorcroft celebrates these triumphs of architectural brilliance, each one requiring hour upon hour of careful tubelining, with the drama that isTrafalgar Square.

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