Roger Williams Landing Place, (sculpture).

Roger Williams Landing Place, (sculpture).

Codman, E. C., sculptor.

Tingley, Frank Foster, designer.

Chappel, Alonzo, 1828-1887, painter. (copy after)

Gorham Manufacturing Company, founder.

Roger Williams Landing Place, (sculpture).

Dedicated 1906. Rededicated 1989.

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Sculpture: bronze; Base: pink Westerly granite.

Sculpture: approx. 2 ft. 3 in. x 3 ft. 1 in. x 1/2 in.; Base: approx. 11 x 9 x 8 ft.

(On front plaque:) E C CODMAN GORHAM MFG CO PROVIDENCE (On front plaque:) ROGER WILLIAMS LANDING/REDEDICATED TO ROGER WILLIAMS/THE FOUNDING FATHER OF RHODE ISLAND/1989/JOSEPH R. PAOLINO, JR. MAYOR/NANCY L DERRIG, SUPERINTENDENT OF PARKS (On side plaque:) TO THE MEMORY OF/ROGER WILLIAMS/THE APOSTLE OF SOUL LIBERTY/FOUNDER OF RHODE ISLAND/AND/PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS/THIS MONUMENT IS DEDICATED/BY THE/PROVIDENCE ASSOCIATION OF MECHANICS AND MANUFACTURERS/1906 (On back plaque:) BELOW THIS SPOT THEN AT/THE WATER'S EDGE STOOD/THE ROCK ON WHICH/ACCORDING TO TRADITION/ROGER WILLIAMS, AN EXILE/FOR HIS DEVOTION TO/FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE/LANDED 1636 (Incised in base:) THE LANDING PLACE OF/ROGER WILLIAMS/"AND HAVING OF A SENSE OF/GOD'S MERCIFUL PROVIDENCE/UNTO ME IN MY DISTRESS/CALLED THE PLACE PROVIDENCE/I DESIRED IT MIGHT BE FOR/A SHELTER FOR PERSONS/DISTRESSED FOR CONSCIENCE"/ROGER WILLIAMS signed Founder's mark appears.

Stele containing four plaques and a pictoral relief. Relief depicts Roger Williams landing on the shores of Rhode Island where he is greeted by Native Americans.

Portrait male -- Williams, Roger -- Full length

Ethnic -- Indian -- Narragansett

History -- United States -- Rhode Island

Outdoor Sculpture -- Rhode Island -- Providence

Administered by City of Providence, Parks Department, Roger Williams Park, Dalrymple Boathouse, Providence, Rhode Island 02905

Located Slate Rock Park, Gano Street at Power Street, Providence, Rhode Island

The sculpture was funded by Association of Merchants and Manufacturers. The plaque may have been inspired by an engraving taken from an Alonzo Chappel oil painting in the Rhode Island School of Design collection.

Rededication plaque by Healy Brothers (of Lincoln, RI) who also restored original plaque. IAS files include citations to the Providence Journal May, 31, 1906, June 1 & 14, 1906, March 7, 1909, July 8 & 13 1926, and to the books, "Providence Pictoral History," by Patrick Conley, (Norfolk, VA: Dunning Company, 1982, pg. 13) and "The Civic and Architectural Development of Providence, 1636-1950," by John H. Cody, (Providence, RI: The Book Shop, 1957).

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Rhode Island survey, 1993.

National Park Service, American Monuments and Outdoor Sculpture Database, RI0018, 1989.

Freeman, Robert & Vivienne Lasky, "Hidden Treasure: Public Sculpture in Providence," Providence, RI: Rhode Island Bicentennial Foundation, 1980, pg. 27.

Freeman, Robert & Vivienne Lasky, "Hidden Treasure: Public Sculpture in Providence," Providence: The Rhode Island Bicentennial Foundation, 1980, pg. 27.

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