General Joseph Roswell Hawley, (sculpture).

General Joseph Roswell Hawley, (sculpture).

Adams, Herbert, 1858-1945, sculptor.

General Joseph Roswell Hawley, (sculpture).

Connecticut State Capitol: North Elevation Bronze Medallions, (sculpture).

ca. 1908-1912. Dedicated Oct. 18, 1912.

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Bronze roundel, gilded, with marble surround.

Approx. Diam. 6 ft. x D. 6 in.

(On medallion near figure's proper right elbow:) Herbert Adams MCMX (Below figures proper right shoulder:) THE FIRST/VOLUNTEER IN/CONNECTICUT/1861/BREVET MAJOR/GENERAL/1865 (Beside figure's proper left shoulder:) GOVERNOR/1866 1867/REPRESENTATIVE/IN CONGRESS/1881 1905 (On marble surround:) BORN MDCCCXXVI PATRIOT SOLDIER STATESMAN DIED MCMV JOSEPH ROSWELL HAWLEY signed

A three-quarter length portrait of General Joseph Roswell Hawley, seen with head turned to proper left. He is dressed in military uniform, with cloak draped over proper right arm and proper right hand grasping the uniform belt. His proper left hand holds the handle of a sword at this side. The bronze medallion is set within a marble surround, with flat outer inscribed band. The entire piece on the east side of the recessed north portico of the State Capitol.

Portrait male -- Hawley, Joseph Roswell -- Knee length

Occupation -- Military -- General

Dress -- Uniform -- Military Uniform

Object -- Weapon -- Sword

Occupation -- Political -- Governor

Occupation -- Political -- Senator

Outdoor Sculpture -- Connecticut -- Hartford

Architectural component

Administered by State of Connecticut, Office of Legislative Management, Legislative Office Building, 210 Capitol Avenue, Hartford, Connecticut 06106

Located Connecticut State Capitol, 210 Capitol Avenue, North Entrance, Hartford, Connecticut 06106

Hawley was Governor of Connecticut from 1866 to 1867, then U.S. Senator.

The medallion was commissioned under the supervision of the State Commission on Sculpture and dedicated Oct. 18, 1912. IAS files contain excerpt from "Hartford's Outdoor Sculpture," exhibition catalogue (April 1981), Trinity College, Hartford, pg. 43.

For further reading see: Marion Hepburn Grant's "In and About Hartford-Tours and Tales," (Hartford: Connecticut Historical Society, 1978), pg. 193; and The Hartford Courant, June 2, 1985, "Northeast Magazine," pg. 21. For related unpublished information see background materials for exhibit on state-commissioned sculpture prepared by Robert Xaver Johnson, 1988 (State Archives, Connecticut State Library, Hartford); and "A Grand Restoration Project," (prepared by League of Women Voters of Connecticut, Education fund, for Capitol information and tours, n.d.).

Ambler, Louise Todd & Marilyn Gage Hyson, unpublished checklist, 2001-2003.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Connecticut survey, 1993.

Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985.

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.

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