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    		• Portrait male -- Reid, Richard
     
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    		• Occupation -- Law
     
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    		• Figure female -- Full length
     
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    		• Object -- Tool
     
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    		• Allegory -- Quality
     
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    		• Animal -- Reptile
     
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    		• Object -- Weapon
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Kentucky -- Mt. Sterling
     
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    		• Gravestone
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    (Richard Reid Monument), (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Unknown, sculptor.
    Title: 
    (Richard Reid Monument), (sculpture).
    Medium: 
    Figure: bronze; Base: granite.
    Dimensions: 
    Figure: approx. H. 6 ft.; Base: approx. 12 x 10 x 10 ft.
    Inscription: 
    (Back of base:) Richard Reid/Oct. 3, 1838,/May 15, 1884./A martyr to law and religion/Erected by his wife who/has given to the world the/history of his noble life,/cruel betrayal and tragic death. unsigned
    Description: 
    Richard Reid stands with his proper right foot extended, a pen in his proper right hand and a notebook in his proper left hand. On the front of the base is a bronze plaque depicting a blindfolded, winged figure of Justice holding a broken sword in her proper right hand and a scale in her raised proper left hand. A snake is entwined around her feet. The bottom corners of the base once had other items that have been removed.
    Subject: 
    Portrait male -- Reid, Richard -- Full length
    Occupation -- Law -- Lawyer
    Figure female -- Full length
    Object -- Tool -- Scale
    Allegory -- Quality -- Justice
    Animal -- Reptile -- Snake
    Object -- Weapon -- Sword
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Kentucky -- Mt. Sterling
    Gravestone
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Machpelah Cemetery, 600 East Locust Street, Mt. Sterling, Kentucky 40353
    Remarks: 
    Commemorates Richard Reid, a distinguished Mt. Sterling attorney who ran for reelection in 1884 to the second highest court in the state. However, he suffered an altercation that April with another attorney, John J. Corneilison, over what Corneilison regarded as an effort by Reid to discredit him. Reid was physically injured and, under mental strain, shot himself on May 15, 1884. IAS files contain related information from Carl B. Boyd Jr.'s and Hazel Mason's "History of Mt. Sterling, Kentucky," 1984, pg. 64, which discusses the event.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Kentucky survey, 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 KY000182
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