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    		• Wilson, Joseph,
     
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    		• Bureau Brothers,
     
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    		• Figure male -- Full length
     
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    		• Occupation -- Military
     
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    		• Dress -- Uniform
     
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    		• Object -- Weapon
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Washington Grays Monument, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Wilson, Joseph, 1779-1857, sculptor.
    Bureau Brothers, founder.
    Title: 
    Washington Grays Monument, (sculpture).
    Other Titles: 
    Washington Grays Artillery Corps, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Monument 1872. Monument dedicated April 19, 1872. Figure commissioned 1906. Figure dedicated April 18, 1908. Rededicated June 14, 1991.
    Medium: 
    Figure: bronze; Monument base: granite.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. 87 x 30 x 30 in.; Base: approx. H. 114 in.; Base plate: Diam. 88 in.
    Inscription: 
    J. Wilson / Bureau Bros. (Base plaque, left side:) Major George W. F. Wood/Captains/ Charles P. Warner/Albert G. Walker/Charles L. Kneass/Washington Airey/19-April-1872 (Base plaque, right side:) Lieutenant Colonels/Thomas S. Martin/Henry G. Whelan/George H. Jawkins/Thomas M. Hall &/Majors:/Joseph S. Chandler/Andrew Col Suplee/Semi-Cent.Anniversary (Base, rear:) Lieutenants:/William S. Sill/Godfrey M. Brindley/Archibald H. Engle/Willam K. Pollock/Walter Scott/William Bowen/To Our Fallen Comrades/1861-1866/This statue was dedicated at this site on June 14, 1991 Bu the Union League of Philadelphia. The First Regiment Infantry of Pennsylvania & Fairmount Park Commission through the efforts of a combined committee of those organizations./The Union League of Philadelphia/Robert M. Flood Jr., President/Stanley W. Root Jr., Esq. Chairman/Leon Clemmer A.I.A., Architect/Raymond K. Denworth, Esquire/First Regiment Infantry of Pennsylvania/Colonel Jack C. Betson, Pres./Major William M. Barnes, Sec'y/Fairmount Park Commission/F/ Eugene Dixon, Jr., Chairman signed Founder's mark appears.
    Description: 
    Standing figure of a Civil War soldier dressed in his uniform consisting of a short belted jacket with fringed epaulets, long pants, and a tall hat with a feather on top. He holds his musket and bayonet vertically in front of him with both hands. His proper left knee is slightly bent.
    Subject: 
    Figure male -- Full length
    Occupation -- Military -- Soldier
    Dress -- Uniform -- Military Uniform
    Object -- Weapon -- Gun
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Union League of Philadelphia, 140 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102
    Provenance: 
    Formerly located Fairmount Park, Lemon Hill Drive, East side of park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1954-1991.
    Formerly located Washington Square, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1898-1954.
    Formerly located Broad Street & Girard Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1872-1898.
    Remarks: 
    A plaque on the building behind the sculpture reads: Erected by the Artillery Corps of Washington Grays on the street at the west side of this square, was formed the 17th Pennsylvania Volunteer Regiment of which the Artillery Corps Washington Grays was a part. The first to arrive in Washington fully armed & equipped for active service.
    In 1871, Edwin N. Benson donated two thousand dollars for the erection of a granite monument to the Washington Grays militia. The Washington Grays were a popular militia company first organized in Philadelphia in 1822, and later became the Artillery Corps, Washington Grays. In 1879 they were consolidated into the First Regiment, National Guard of Pennsylvania. This monument, which is now the base for the figurative sculpture, was originally installed at Broad Street and Girard Avenue in 1872. In 1898, the monument was moved to Washington Square, and in 1906 a committee was formed to find a bronze figure of a Washington Gray to place on top of the monument. Bureau Brothers cast the bronze figure and it was dedicated on April 18, 1908. In 1854, the monument and figure ware moved to Fairmount Park, and in 1991, the they were moved to the Union League Club.
    References: 
    Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985
    City of Philadelphia, 1973.
    National Park Service, American Monuments and Outdoor Sculpture Database, PA5011, PA5018, 1989.
    Monumental News, Oct. 1907; April 1908; May 1908.
    Fairmount Park Art Assoc., "Sculpture of a City: Philadelphia's Treasures in Bronze & Stone," NY: Walker Publ., 1974, pg. 69.
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia survey, 1993.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Fairmount Park Art Assoc., "Sculpture of a City: Philadelphia's Treasures in Bronze & Stone," NY: Walker Publ., 1974, pg. 69.
    Note: 
    The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
    Repository: 
    Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
    Control Number: 
    IAS 75009304
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