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This sculpture of a quadriga (a chariot drawn by four horses) was added to the top of TQ2879 : The Wellington Arch in 1912. The artist, Adrian Jones, had originally exhibited a plaster group called “Triumph” at the Royal Academy. Supposedly, the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, remarked that it would make an excellent crowning ornament for the Wellington Arch. Jones cast it in bronze and it was added to the arch. The quadriga, which depicts the angel of peace descending on the chariot of war, is the largest bronze sculpture in Europe.