Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton, (sculpture).

Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton, (sculpture).

Unknown, sculptor.

Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton, (sculpture).

Figure: marble; Base: granite.

Figure: approx. 6 x 1 1/2 x 1 1/2 ft.; Base: approx. 4 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 4 1/2 ft.

(Upper front of base, raised:) MOTHER/ELIZABETH ANN SETON/1774 - 1821 (Lower front of base:) In Memory/of/Purcell Carroll Tiernan unsigned

Elizabeth Ann Seton stands in a dress and bonnet. She holds a book in her proper right hand and a rosary in her proper left hand. She stands atop an inscribed base.

Religion -- Saint -- St. Elizabeth Ann Seton

Homage -- Tiernan, Purcell Carroll

Object -- Written Matter -- Book

Object -- Other -- Rosary

Dress -- Accessory -- Hat

Outdoor Sculpture -- New Jersey -- Montclair

Archdiocese of Newark, Mother Seton Residence, 51 Washington Street, Montclair, New Jersey 07042

Commissioned in memory of Purcell Carroll Tiernan, probably by her husband, after her death in 1958, and imported from Italy. The Mother Seton Residence is a non-profit senior residence. Elizabeth Ann Seton, 1774-1821, founded the Sisters of Charity in the United States in 1809. She was later canonized as the first saint from the United States.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, New Jersey survey, 1995.

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