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    		• Bissell, George Edwin,
     
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    		• Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company,
     
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    		• Portrait male -- Sammons, Simeon
     
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    		• Emblem -- Seal
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- New York
     
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    		• Gravestone
     
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    		• Relief
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    (Sammons Family Memorial), (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Bissell, George Edwin, 1839-1920, sculptor.
    Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company, founder.
    Title: 
    (Sammons Family Memorial), (sculpture).
    Other Titles: 
    (Colonel Simeon Sammons Sculpture), (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1899.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image Image Image Image Image
    Medium: 
    Reliefs, plaques, bust: bronze; Marker: granite.
    Dimensions: 
    Bust: approx. H. 54 in. x W. 32 in.; Marker: approx. H. 8 ft. x Diam. 144 in.
    Inscription: 
    (Sculptor's signature is found on each plaque.) THE HENRY BONNARD BRONZE CO. NY 1899 (In relief carving above bust:) 1756/1776/1861/E. PLURIBUS UNUM (Below bust, raised:) COLONEL SIMEON SAMMONDS (sic)/A UNION SOLDIER OF THE/CIVIL WAR (Lower front face of marker, raised and polished:) SAMMONS (On ribbons in relief on either side of bust:) HARPER'S FERRY/MARYLAND HEIGHTS/BOLLIVER HEIGHTS/WEST POINT/DRURY'S BLUFF (Bronze plaques with lengthy text on three remaining faces of marker) signed Founder's mark appears.
    Description: 
    Family memorial consisting of a polished granite marker shaped like an obelisk above a rough-hewn stepped base. On each face of the marker is a bronze bas-relief plaque. On the front face of the marker, recessed in the center, is a three-dimensional bronze bust of Colonel Simeon Sammons. Surrounding the bust is a bas-relief featuring two Revolutionary War soldiers, seated above the bust, below which threads a ribbon on either side of the bust inscribed with Civil War battle names. On the back side of the marker is a bronze Liberty Cap Seal. On the remaining two sides of the marker are plaques with text commemorating the family.
    Subject: 
    Portrait male -- Sammons, Simeon -- Bust
    Emblem -- Seal
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- New York
    Gravestone
    Relief
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Restricted Owner, Montgomery County, New York
    Remarks: 
    The monument was erected by John H. Starin, a member of the Sammons family.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, New York survey, 1994.
    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 NY000627
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