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Boyd, Thomas,
Graveson, Isaac,
Allegory -- Quality
Figure female -- Full length
Dress -- Historic
Object -- Tool
Object -- Weapon
Outdoor Sculpture -- Kentucky -- Georgetown
Architectural component
Sculpture
Lady Truth, (sculpture).
Artist:
Unknown, sculptor.
Boyd, Thomas, architect.
Graveson, Isaac, contractor.
Title:
Lady Truth, (sculpture).
Other Titles:
Lady Justice, (sculpture).
Dates:
1875 (?).
Medium:
Figure: copper-painted metal; Platform: stone.
Dimensions:
Figure: approx. H. 12 ft.; Platform: approx. H. 3 ft. (200 lbs.).
Inscription:
unsigned
Description:
Truth, a female figure dressed in a full-length, Roman-type toga, stands with scales in her upraised proper left hand, and an unsheathed sword in her proper right hand. Her proper left leg is exposed to her thigh. Truth is mounted on a short, square platform above a triangular pediment above courthouse entrance.
Subject:
Allegory -- Quality -- Truth
Figure female -- Full length
Dress -- Historic -- Classical Dress
Object -- Tool -- Scale
Object -- Weapon -- Sword
Object Type:
Outdoor Sculpture -- Kentucky -- Georgetown
Architectural component
Sculpture
Owner:
Administered by Scott County Government, P. O. Box 677, Georgetown, Kentucky 40324
Located Scott County Courthouse, Main Street, Above front entrance, Georgetown, Kentucky
Remarks:
The Scott County Courthouse was designed by Thomas Boyd, who received a premium payment $150.00 in December 1876. Bids were opened in Feb. 1877, Isaac Graveson of Cincinnati being the lowest at $34,600. IAS files contain related excerpt from John W. Carpenter and William B. Scott, Jr.'s: "Kentucky Courthouses," London, KY: Carpenter, 1988. The SOS! survey report gives 1875 as an execution date for the statue and a Dec. 8, 1994 clipping from Lexington's Herald-Leader, also in IAS files, states that the figure has been on the courthouse since 1875.
The Carpenter text also includes an 1876 sketch of the courthouse showing the Truth figure in place, but gives 1877 as the execution date for the courthouse. The Courthouse was registered with the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The figure of Truth was removed during a renovation of the courthouse in 1992-1994 and restored during that period by Steinrock Art Restoration (Lexington, Kentucky). Restoration work included replacement of a missing big toe and one of the scales.
References:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Kentucky survey, 1995.
Illustration:
Image on file.
Herald-Leader (Lexington, KY), Dec. 8, 1994.
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 KY000176
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Inventory of American Sculpture
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