Click here to loginLoginView my BookbagMy List - 0HelpHelp
 Search 
 Search Images 
 About 
   
KeywordBrowseCombinedHighlightsSearch HistoryAll Catalogs
Search:    Refine Search  
> You are only searching: Art Inventories
More Smithsonian Searches
 
 Who else has...
 
  •  
    		• Saunders, Henry Dmochowski,
     
  •  
    		• Figure group -- Family
     
  •  
    		• Homage -- Saunders, Henry Dmochowski, Mrs. (Mary Schaaff)
     
  •  
    		• Figure group -- Family
     
  •  
    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
     
  •  
    		• Gravestone
     
  •  
    		• Sculpture
     
     
    (Mother and Twins Monument), (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Saunders, Henry Dmochowski, 1810-1863, sculptor.
    Title: 
    (Mother and Twins Monument), (sculpture).
    Medium: 
    Marble.
    Inscription: 
    (Inscriptions on three sides of the base in English and Polish:) To the memory of Mary Schaaff. Wife of Henry Dmoghowski-Saunders. Born Neustadt on the Rhine May 24, 1823. Died Philadelphia July 8, 1857. Her children repose with her. (Parts of remaining inscription illegible:) We Should Count Time in Heart Throbs. He Most Lives who Thinks Most. Feels the Noblest. Acts the Best
    Description: 
    A statue of a mother holding her infant twins.
    Subject: 
    Figure group -- Family -- Mother & Child
    Homage -- Saunders, Henry Dmochowski, Mrs. (Mary Schaaff)
    Figure group -- Family -- Siblings
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
    Gravestone
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Laurel Hill Cemetery, 3822 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19132
    Remarks: 
    Title supplied by Inventory cataloger.
    The sculpture commemorates the artist's wife, who died in 1857, and her children, who died two years earlier in a boating accident. The sculpture overlooks the spot on the Schuykill River where the babies drowned.
    The Laurel Hill Cemetery has been designated a National Historic Landmark.
    References: 
    Inventory staff, 2002.
    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 71500542
    Add to my list 
    Copy/Holding information
    Smithsonian AmericanArt MuseumControl Number 
    Inventory of American Sculpture71500542Add Copy to MyList

    Format:HTMLPlain textDelimited
    Subject: 
    Email to:


    Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9382
     Powered by SirsiDynix
    About | © 2020 Smithsonian | Terms of Use | Privacy | Contact
    SIRIS - Smithsonian Institution Research Information System