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    		• Renwick, James, Jr.,
     
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    		• Portrait male -- Gardiner, Lion
     
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    		• Ethnic -- British
     
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    		• Occupation -- Industry
     
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    		• Occupation -- Other
     
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    		• Occupation -- Writer
     
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    		• Occupation -- Military
     
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    		• Dress -- Historic
     
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    		• Architecture -- Religious
     
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    		• Emblem -- Coat of Arms
     
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    		• Animal -- Bird
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- New York -- East Hampton
     
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    		• Gravestone
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Lion Gardiner Memorial, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Renwick, James, Jr., 1818-1895, sculptor.
    Title: 
    Lion Gardiner Memorial, (sculpture).
    Other Titles: 
    Lion Gardiner Monument, (sculpture).
    Grave of Lion Gardiner, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Dedicated 1883.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: concrete; Base: concrete.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. 1 ft. x 23 in. x 6 ft. 6 in.; Base: approx. W. 45 in. x D. 8 1/2 ft.
    Inscription: 
    (On chantry, proper right side of cross gable:) IN MEMORY OF (Proper left side of cross gable:) LION GARDINER (On band between bottom base block and bottom of chantry, in old English, incised lettering:) An officer of ye English Army and an Engineer & Master of Works of Fortifications in ye Leaguers of ye Prince of Oarange in ye Low Countries. In 1635 he came to New England in ye service of a company of Lords & Gentlemen he builded & commanded ye Saybrook Forte/After completing his term of Service he removed in 1639 to his Island of which he was sole owner & Ruler. Born in 1599, he died in this town in 1663, Venerated and Honored. Under many trying circumstances in Peace and War he was Brave Discreet & True. unsigned
    Description: 
    A knight, possibly Gardiner Lion, lies in wake, wearing armor and a visor down over his face, his hands clasped across his chest in prayer, his feet straight and close together, encased in boots. He lays in a gothic-style chantry that is steeply gabled, with a cross gable and barrel vaults. The Gardiner coat-of-arms is carved in relief in the gable of each cross gable, and a pelican is in relief in each gable of the main roof. An upright headstone for Gardiner's wife Mary is located adjacent to the memorial, and both are enclosed by a decorative metal fence, painted black.
    Subject: 
    Portrait male -- Gardiner, Lion -- Full length
    Ethnic -- British
    Occupation -- Industry -- Engineering
    Occupation -- Other -- Colonist
    Occupation -- Writer -- Author
    Occupation -- Military -- Knight
    Dress -- Historic -- Armor
    Architecture -- Religious
    Emblem -- Coat of Arms
    Animal -- Bird -- Pelican
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- New York -- East Hampton
    Gravestone
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by Village of East Hampton, Cemetery Association of the South End Burying Ground, East Hampton, New York 11937
    Located South End Burying Ground, James Lane, on hill overlooking the town pond, East Hampton, New York
    Remarks: 
    The memorial marks the grave of Lion Gardiner (1599-1663), who, after serving as an engineer in the army of the Prince of Orange, joined a group of English colonists interested in settling in New England. He landed in Boston in 1635 and was employed by the Massachusetts Bay Colony to design and build fortifications in Boston Harbor until he moved to Saybrook, Connecticut, where he erected defenses for the settlement. He gained distinction during the Pequot Indian War of 1637. He and his wife, Mary Duercant, and son, purchased and moved to the Isle of Wight off eastern Long Island, renaming it Gardiner's Island. Lion Gardiner was the author of "Relations of the Pequot War," written in 1637-1638. His original gravesite was marked by cedar posts. Upon exhumation in the 1800s, Gardiner was found to be six feet tall with red hair, and clad in armor for burial. For further related information see J. E. Rattray's "East Hampton History & Genealogies," Garden City Press, 1952, pg. 38-42; and the East Hampton Star, Aug./Sept., 1886. For more related information see the archives in the Long Island Collection, East Hampton Library. IAS files contain an excerpt from Raymond E., Judith A., and Kathryn E. Spinzia's "Long Island: A Guide to New York's Suffolk and Nassau Counties," New York: Hippocrene Books, 1991, "Town of East Hampton" sect.
    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 NY000471
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