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Whitney, Anne,
Ames Manufacturing Company,
Portrait male -- Adams, Samuel
Occupation -- Law
Outdoor Sculpture -- Massachusetts -- Boston
Sculpture
Samuel
Adams
, (sculpture).
Artist:
Whitney, Anne, 1821-1915, sculptor.
Ames Manufacturing Company, founder.
Title:
Samuel
Adams
, (sculpture).
Dates:
1875. Dedicated 1880. Relocated 1928.
Medium:
Sculpture: bronze; Base: Quincy granite.
Dimensions:
Sculpture: approx. 8 x 2 x 3 ft.; Base: approx. 7 ft. 8 in. x 51 1/2 in. x 51 1/2 in.
Inscription:
(On back lower right side of bronze base:) Anne Whitney Sc. (On back lower left side of bronze base:) Ames Foundry Chicopee, Mass. 1880 (On front of base:)
SAMUEL
ADAMS
/1722-1803/A PATRIOT/HE ORGANIZED THE REVOLUTION/AND SIGNED THE/DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (On right side of base:) A STATESMAN/INCORRUPTIBLE AND FEARLESS (On rear of base:) ERECTED A.D. 1880/FROM A FUND BEQUEATHED TO THE/CITY OF BOSTON/BY JONATHAN PHILLIPS (On left side of base:) GOVERNOR/A TRUE LEADER OF THE PEOPLE signed Founder's mark appears.
Description:
A standing portrait of
Samuel
Adams
as he appeared before Lt. Governor Hutchinson and the Council on the day after the Boston Massacre.
Adams
stands in a defiant pose with his arms folded across his chest and a scroll tightly grasped in his proper right hand. The sculpture rests atop a tall square base.
Subject:
Portrait male --
Adams
,
Samuel
-- Full length
Occupation -- Law -- Lawyer
Object Type:
Outdoor Sculpture -- Massachusetts -- Boston
Sculpture
Owner:
Administered by City of Boston, Boston Art Commission, Office of Cultural Affairs, Boston City Hall, Room 716, Boston, Massachusetts 02201
Located Faneuil Hall, Dock Square, Boston, Massachusetts
Provenance:
Formerly located
Adams
Square, Washington Street, Boston, Massachusetts 1880-1928.
Remarks:
This bronze is a replica of the marble statue of
Samuel
Adams
located in the U. S. Capitol, Statuary Hall. Funds for this cast were bequeathed by Jonathan Phillips. IAS files contain an excerpt from Allan Forbes and Ralph M. Eastman's "Other Statues of Boston," Boston, MA: State Street Trust Co., 1947, pg. 10-13.; Walter Muir Whitehill's "Boston Statues," Barre, MA: Barre Publishers, 1970, pg. 42-43; and a Condition Survey of Boston Sculpture form dated Nov. 2, 1979.
References:
Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985
Zoukee, Sophye M., "Adopt-A-Statue Casebook," Boston: City of Boston, 1990, pg. 1.
Carlock, Marty, "A Guide to Public Art in Greater Boston," Boston: Harvard Common Press, 1988.
Boston Art Commission, 1991.
Proctor, Nancy, 1995.
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Massachusetts survey, 1993.
National Park Service, American Monuments and Outdoor Sculpture Database, MA5102, 1989.
Monumental News, Sept. 1894, pg. 435-436.
Illustration:
Image on file.
Zoukee, Sophye M., "Adopt-A-Statue Casebook," Boston: City of Boston, 1990, pg. 1.
Monumental News, Sept. 1894, pg. 435.
Related Works:
For model see: 75002319.
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 76008355
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