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Latrobe Cenotaphs, (sculpture). Artist:  Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820, sculptor. Title:  Latrobe Cenotaphs, (sculpture). Dates:  1816-1877. Medium:  Sandstone. Dimensions:  Over 100. Each: H. 4 1/2 ft. Description:  "...massive square bases surmounted with conical caps." Subject:  Homage Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- District of Columbia -- Washington Sculpture Owner:  Administered by Association for the Preservation of Historic Congressional Cemetery, 1801 E Street, S.E., Washington, District of Columbia 20003 Located Congressional Cemetery, 1801 E Street, S.E., Washington, District of Columbia 20003 Remarks:  These monuments were used as memorials to the congressmen who died in office during 1807 to 1877. "Although several hundred of these monuments were erected, less than eighty bodies were interred under them. The practice of erecting these...monuments was halted in 1877 because of an animated speech by Senator George Hoar of Massachusetts in which he remarked that being buried beneath one of them would add a new terror to death. After that date, Arlington Memorial Cemetery became the national burial ground." References:  Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985 Goode, James M., "The Outdoor Sculpture of Washington, D.C., A Comprehensive Historical Guide," Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1974. Goode, James M., "Washington Sculpture: A Cultural History of Outdoor Sculpture in the Nation's Capitol," Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008, no. 1.41. Illustration:  Goode, James M., "The Outdoor Sculpture of Washington, D.C., A Comprehensive Historical Guide," Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1974, A-39. Goode, James M., "Washington Sculpture: A Cultural History of Outdoor Sculpture in the Nation's Capitol," Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008, no. 1.41. 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 76006718   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture 76006718 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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