Dog, (sculpture).

Dog, (sculpture).

Bartlett and Hayward, founder.

Dog, (sculpture).

Mid-1850s. Installed ca. 1865.

Digital Reference:

Dog: iron, painted; Foundation: concrete.

Dog: approx. 33 x 12 x 59 1/2 in.

A male Newfoundland retriever, painted black.

Homage -- Rees, Elizabeth

Animal -- Dog -- Newfoundland

Outdoor Sculpture -- Virginia -- Richmond

Hollywood Cemetery, 412 South Cherry Street, Charles R. Rees plot, near Cedar & Confederate Avenues, Richmond, Virginia 23220

Formerly in the collection of Rees, Charles R., Richmond, Virginia

The dog belonged to Charles R. Rees, and marks the grave of his sister, Elizabeth (Bernadine) Rees who died in 1862. Charles Rees initially purchased it for his son who saw the dog in front of a store and used to "ride" it every time he passed it. The dog was not placed in the cemetery until just prior to the Civil War's end in 1865, to prevent its confiscation as metal for bullets. The dog is embedded in concrete to prevent its vandalism.

For further information see the Hollywood Cemetery file at the Valentine Museum Library (Richmond, VA); and see Mary H. Mitchell's "Hollywood Cemetery, the History of a Southern Shrine," Richmond: Virginia State Library, 1985. IAS files contain article from the Times-Dispatch; and Sculpture Survey, City of Richmond, 1986.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Virginia survey, 1995.

Antiques (March 1988): pg. 567.

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