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    		• Kirby-Smith, Maria,
     
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    		• Figure group -- Male & Child
     
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    		• Occupation -- Service
     
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    		• Object -- Weapon
     
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    		• Dress -- Uniform
     
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    		• Object -- Toy
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Virginia -- Richmond
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Police Memorial Statue, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Kirby-Smith, Maria, sculptor.
    Title: 
    Police Memorial Statue, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Dedicated May 15, 1987.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image Image Image Image
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: bronze; Base: Georgia granite.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. H. 8 1/2 ft.; Base: approx. 1 ft. 4 6/8 in. x 3 ft. 7 1/4 in. x 5 ft. 11 in.
    Inscription: 
    Kirby-Smith (On his uniform on proper right shoulder within a patch, raised:) BUREAU OF POLICE/SICITUR ADASTRA/RICHMOND VIRGINIA signed
    Description: 
    A male police officer wearing a Richmond City Police uniform, including a hat, walks down the steps carrying a little girl in his proper left arm. His uniform is outfitted with a mace gun and a baton at his proper left side of his waist, and a gun and an ammunition pockets on his proper right side. The little girl has lost one shoe and holds a teddy bear in her proper right hand.
    Subject: 
    Figure group -- Male & Child
    Occupation -- Service -- Policeman
    Object -- Weapon -- Gun
    Dress -- Uniform -- Police Uniform
    Object -- Toy -- Animal
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Virginia -- Richmond
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by Richmond Police Memorial Foundation, 2884 Braidwood Road, Richmond, Virginia 23225
    Located North Plaza of 6th Street Market Place, east side, Richmond, Virginia
    Remarks: 
    Nearby plaque reads: We the People of Richmond Present/This Memorial in Recognition of Police/Officers Who Afford Us Their Protection./Those Officers Named Here Are Remembered/Particularly for Making the Supreme/Sacrifice By Giving Their Lives In/The Line of Duty./(list of names and death dates follows)/We Here Highly Resolve That These Dead Shall Not Have Died In Vain. IAS files contain transcription of names and death dates on nearby plaque.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Virginia survey, 1995.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    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 VA000351
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