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Swartwout, Egerton,
Homage -- Eddy, Mary Baker
Architecture -- Classical
Outdoor Sculpture -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge
Gravestone
Sculpture
Mary Baker Eddy Memorial, (sculpture).
Artist:
Swartwout, Egerton, sculptor.
Title:
Mary Baker Eddy Memorial, (sculpture).
Digital Reference:
Medium:
Marble.
Dimensions:
Approx. H. 30 ft. x Diam. 10 ft.; Base: approx. H. 3 ft. x W 60 ft.
Inscription:
These things have I/spoken unto you being/yet present with you/but the comforter/which is the Holy Ghost/whom the father will/send in my name, he shall/teach you all things/to your remembrance/whatsoevever/hae said/into you/Christ Jesus./The term science/properly understood/refers only to the/laws of God and to his/government of the/universe inclusive/of man. Science is an/emenation of divine/mind and is alone able/to interpret God aright/it has a spiritual and/not a material origin/it is a divine utterance/the comforter which/leadeth into all truth./Mary Baker Eddy./Mary Baker Eddy discoverer and founder of Christine Science author of Christian Science and Health with key to the Scripture./The monument whose finger/points upwardly commemorates/the earthly life of a martyr/but this is not all of the/philanthropist, hero, and/christian./The truth he has/taught and spoken, lives, and/moves in our midst a divine/affectus. Mary Baker Eddy. unsigned
Description:
A small circular Greek temple with three steps at the bottom.
Subject:
Homage -- Eddy, Mary Baker
Architecture -- Classical -- Temple
Object Type:
Outdoor Sculpture -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge
Gravestone
Sculpture
Owner:
Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Halcyon Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts
References:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Massachusetts survey, 1998.
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 MA000372
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Inventory of American Sculpture
MA000372
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