Login My List - 0 Help
	Search   Search Images   About

Keyword Browse Combined Highlights Search History All Catalogs

Search:  Artist BrowseTitle BrowseSubject BrowseObject Type Browse Owner Browse       Refine Search     > You are only searching: Art Inventories

More Smithsonian Searches     Who else has...     National Marble & Granite Company,     Lawson & Newton Company,     History -- United States     Figure male -- Full length     Occupation -- Military     Dress -- Uniform     Outdoor Sculpture -- Virginia -- Mathews     Sculpture

Our Confederate Soldier, (sculpture). Artist:  National Marble & Granite Company, fabricator. Lawson & Newton Company, contractor. Title:  Our Confederate Soldier, (sculpture). Dates:  Installed 1912. Dedicated Sept. 12, 1912. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Sculpture: stone; Base: stone. Dimensions:  Sculpture: approx. 6 x 2 x 1.5 ft.; Base: approx. 24 x 2.5 x 2.5 ft. Inscription:  (On front midsection of base, flanking crossed swords, raised lettering:) 1861 1865 (On lower front of base, raised lettering:) OUR CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS (On left side of middle section of base, raised letters:) ERECTED BY THE/LANE DIGGS CAMP C.V./AND THE SALLIE (sic) THOMPKINS (sic)/CHAPTER U.D.C. (On right side of middle section of base, raised letters:) IN MEMORY OF THE/SOLDIERS AND SAILORS/OF MATHEW (sic) CO. VIRGINIA unsigned Description:  A uniformed Confederate Civil War soldier stands holding the barrel of a rifle in front of him with both hands, the butt resting in front of his feet. He wears a brimmed hat and two pouches hang from his belt, one on each hip. The soldier is placed atop a tall shaft embellished on the front with a relief of a Confederate flag. Below the shaft, the base is adorned on the front with a relief of crossed swords and on the back with a relief of crossed cannons. The bottom of the base consists of two steps. The monument stands in a square planter and the monument is lit at night. There once was a metal railing around the base of the monument. Subject:  History -- United States -- Civil War Figure male -- Full length Occupation -- Military -- Soldier Dress -- Uniform -- Military Uniform Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- Virginia -- Mathews Sculpture Owner:  Administered by Mathews County, Buildings and Grounds Department, Courthouse Square, Mathews County Courthouse Mathews, Virginia 23109 Located Mathews County Courthouse, Courthouse Square, Mathews, Virginia Remarks:  The monument was erected by the Land Diggs Camp of the United Confederate Veterans and the Sally Tompkins Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, in memory of Civil War soldiers and sailors of Mathews County, Virginia. It was funded through a long public fund raising campaign. The monument was once fenced with a metal railing created by Lawson & Newton Company in 1913, but the railing was later removed. IAS files contain an article from the Gazette-Journal (Mathews/Gloucester, VA), May 1987; and correspondence from the Mathews County Historical Society dated August 4, 1995. References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, Virginia survey, 1995. Illustration:  Image on file. Gazette-Journal (Mathews/Gloucester, VA), May 1987. 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 VA000398   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture VA000398 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9382

About | © 2020 Smithsonian | Terms of Use | Privacy | Contact