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More Smithsonian Searches     Who else has...     Elwell, Frank Edwin,     White, Stanford,     Portrait male -- Booth, Edwin     Performing Arts -- Theater     Dress -- Costume     Allegory -- Arts & Sciences     Gravestone     Outdoor Sculpture -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge     Relief     Sculpture

Edwin Booth Monument, (sculpture). Artist:  Elwell, Frank Edwin, 1858-1922, sculptor. White, Stanford, 1853-1906, architect. Title:  Edwin Booth Monument, (sculpture). Dates:  1895. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Relief: bronze; Base: Tennessee marble. Dimensions:  Overall: approx. 5 ft. x 2 ft. x 6 in. Inscription:  (On right side of bronze relief:) F.EDWIN.ELWELL/1895 (On front of gravestone, above bronze relief:) BOOTH (On front of gravestone, below bronze relief:) EDWIN BOOTH/BORN NOVEMBER 13, 1833/DIED JUNE 7, 1893/"I WILL TURN THEIR MOURNING/INTO JOY AND WILL COMFORT THEM/AND MAKE THEM REJOICE FROM.THEIR SORROW" TER XXI 13 (On back of gravestone, below relief:) "THE IDEA OF THY LIFE SHALL/SWEETLY CREEP/INTO MY STVDY OF IMAGINATION/AND EVERY LOVELY ORGAN OF/THY LIFE/SHALL COME APPARELED IN/MORE PRECIOVS HABIT/MORE MOVING DELICATE AND/FVLL OF LIFE/INTO THE EYE AND PROSPECT/OF MY SOVL/THAN WHEN THOV LIV'ST INDEED"/SHAKESPEARE signed Description:  A stone grave marker adorned on the front with a circular bronze relief depicting a bust of Edwin Booth. On the back of the grave marker is a quote from Shakespeare and a small stone relief depicting two Greek masks encircled by a wreath. Subject:  Portrait male -- Booth, Edwin -- Bust Performing Arts -- Theater -- Performer Dress -- Costume -- Mask Allegory -- Arts & Sciences -- Drama Object Type:  Gravestone Outdoor Sculpture -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge Relief Sculpture Owner:  Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts References:  Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985 Save Outdoor Sculpture, Massachusetts survey, 1998. National Park Service, American Monuments and Outdoor Sculpture Database, MA0120, 1989. Monumental News, Aug. 1894, pg. 388. 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 77002497   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture 77002497 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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