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    		• Smith and Crane,
     
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    		• Harbo, Christopher,
     
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    		• Austin, Merwin,
     
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    		• Warner, Andrew J.,
     
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    		• Figure female -- Full length
     
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    		• Allegory -- Quality
     
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    		• Dress -- Historic
     
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    		• Object -- Tool
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- New York -- Rochester
     
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    Justice, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Smith and Crane, fabricator. (attributed to).
    Harbo, Christopher, d. 1862, sculptor. (possibly by)
    Austin, Merwin, architect.
    Warner, Andrew J., architect.
    Title: 
    Justice, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Installed ca. April 1852. Reinstalled 1897.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image Image Image
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: wood, gilded or painted.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. H. 8 ft.
    Description: 
    An allegorical female figure representing Justice is mounted on a pedestal within an arched niche. She wears classical drapery and stands holding scales in her raised proper left arm. In her proper right hand she holds a sword. The sculpture is lit by two spotlights.
    Subject: 
    Figure female -- Full length
    Allegory -- Quality -- Justice
    Dress -- Historic -- Classical Dress
    Object -- Tool -- Scale
    Object -- Weapon -- Sword
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- New York -- Rochester
    Architectural component
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by County of Monroe, 39 West Main Street, County Office Building, Rochester, New York
    Located County Office Building, 39 West Main Street, 4th floor niche, Rochester, New York
    Provenance: 
    Formerly located Monroe County Courthouse, West Main Street, Rochester, New York
    Remarks: 
    The sculpture was first installed in 1852 upon a cupola surmounting the dome of the second Monroe County Courthouse. The courthouse, built in 1850-1851, was designed by local architect Merwin Austin with his apprentice Andrew J. Warner. The artist(s) of the sculpture: a 1852 newspaper article in IAS files states that the sculpture was "made by Messrs. Smith & Crane," of New York, with a cost of $355 for the figure, and a total cost of $455 for placing it on its pedestal. Another source states that the sculptor was Christopher Harbo of Canandaigua, while yet another states that it was a French woodcarver with a shop in Rochester. In 1894, when the courthouse was torn down and replaced, the sculpture was removed. The third Monroe County Courthouse, built on the same site as its predecessor, was first occupied on June 27, 1896, and the sculpture was reinstalled in its niche the following year. The Monroe County Courthouse is now known as the County Office Building.
    IAS files contain: newspaper article from a source identified only as "RDD," April 9, 1852; newspaper article identified only as "U.A. March, 1894," discussing the removal of the sculpture; "Rochester Historical Society Publication Fund Series Vol. XIV," Rochester: Rochester Historical Society, ed. Edward R. Foreman, 1934, pg. 318-320; Rochester History vol. XL, no. 2 (April 1978), pg. 8-9.
    References: 
    Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, New York survey, 1993.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    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 76004286
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