Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
Search Images
About
Keyword
Browse
Combined
Highlights
Search History
All Catalogs
Search:
Artist Browse
Title Browse
Subject Browse
Object Type Browse
Owner Browse
Refine Search
> You are only searching:
Art Inventories
More Smithsonian Searches
Who else has...
Davidson, Thomas,
Miller, William N.,
History -- United States
History -- United States
Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Gettysburg
Sculpture
2nd Delaware Infantry Monument, (sculpture).
Artist:
Davidson, Thomas, fabricator.
Miller, William N., contractor.
Title:
2nd Delaware Infantry Monument, (sculpture).
Dates:
Dedicated June 10, 1886. Relocated 1909.
Medium:
Monument: Brandywine blue granite; Base: Brandywine blue granite.
Dimensions:
Overall: approx. H. 7 ft. 9 in. x 3. ft. 6 in. x 3 ft. 6 in.
Inscription:
(On front below trefoil:) POSITION/HELD BY/THE 2ND REG./DEL. VOL./INFANTRY/4TH BRIG. 1ST DIV./2ND ARMY CORPS./JULY 2ND/OAK LEAVES/1863/ERECTED BY STATE OF/DELAWARE TO COMMEMORATE/THE GALLANTRY OF/HER SONS/A.D. 1885 unsigned
Description:
Rough hewn granite marker with smooth faced triangular section on front with text inscription, and capped top with trefoil design on front.
Subject:
History -- United States -- Civil War
History -- United States -- Delaware
Object Type:
Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Gettysburg
Sculpture
Owner:
Administered by United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Washington, District of Columbia
Administered by Gettysburg National Military Park, 97 Taneytown Road, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania 17325
Located Gettysburg National Military Park, Brooke Avenue in Rose Grove, south of Wheatfield, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania 17325
Remarks:
The monument marks the advance position held by the regiment and brigade after 4:30 pm on July 2nd, when they moved from the Wheatfield into the woods. The monument (referred to as MN 143) is listed on the National Park Service List of Classified Structures and is referenced in the Gettysburg National Military Park Archives, vol. 12. The monument was originally located in the park in the center of Wheatfield. It was relocated to Rose Grove, August 17, 1909.
References:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Pennsylvania 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 PA001945
Copy/Holding information
Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum
Control Number
Inventory of American Sculpture
PA001945
Add Copy to MyList
Format:
HTML
Plain text
Delimited
Subject:
Email to:
Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9382
About
| © 2020 Smithsonian |
Terms of Use
|
Privacy
|
Contact
Login
Help
