Given by Pope Pius IX (1792-1878) to Queen Isabel II of Spain, it reproduces the so-called Flaminian Obelisk in the centre of the Piazza del Popolo in Rome. Its attribution remains uncertain; it may have been made in the circle of the sculptor and mosaicist Benedetto Boschetti, who made high quality souvenirs in the mid-nineteenth century and was awarded a medal at the Great Exhibition in London in 1851.
González-Palacios, Alvar, Las colecciones reales españolas de mosaicos y piedras duras, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2001, pp. 199-200, nº 37.
Inv. Real Museo, Sección Escultura, 1857.
Núm. 995.
"995. Un obelisco de mármol rojo an/tiguo sacado por el conocido con el nom/bre de Flaminio que se halla en la/ Puerta y Plaza del Pueblo de la Ciudad/ de Roma: regalado a S.M. la Reyna por S.S. Pio IX".
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