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Mueller, Augustus Max Johannes,
Schwarzmann, Herman J.,
Allegory -- Arts & Sciences
Figure female -- Full length
Dress -- Historic
Figure male -- Full length
Object -- Tool
Object -- Foliage
Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Sculpture
Agriculture, (sculpture).
Artist:
Mueller, Augustus Max Johannes, b. 1847, sculptor. (attributed to)
Schwarzmann, Herman J., 1843-1891, architect.
Title:
Agriculture, (sculpture).
Dates:
ca. 1876. Dedicated May 10, 1876.
Digital Reference:
Medium:
Sculpture: zinc, painted green.
Description:
Agriculture is represented by allegorical figures of a standing female and a seated male. The female figure, dressed in classical robes, bends her proper right leg and rests her proper left foot on a raised object. She holds a sickle in her proper right hand and a sheaf of wheat in her proper left hand. On her proper right side, a much smaller figure of a seated male holds an object in each hand. He wears a broad-rimmed hat and a handkerchief or bandanna around his neck.
Subject:
Allegory -- Arts & Sciences -- Agriculture
Figure female -- Full length
Dress -- Historic -- Classical Dress
Figure male -- Full length
Object -- Tool -- Scythe
Object -- Foliage -- Wheat
Object Type:
Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Sculpture
Owner:
Administered by City of Philadelphia, Fairmount Park Commission, Memorial Hall, West Park, P. O. Box 21601, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19131
Located Memorial Hall, Dome, North corner, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
References:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Survey, 1993.
Bach, Penny Balkin, "Public Art in Philadelphia," Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992.
Illustration:
Image on file.
Fairmount Park Art Association, "Sculpture of a City: Philadelphia's Treasures in Bronze and Stone," NY: Walker Publ., 1974, pg. 83.
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 PA000162
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Inventory of American Sculpture
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