(Grieving Mothers), (sculpture).

(Grieving Mothers), (sculpture).

Pratt, Bela Lyon, 1867-1917, sculptor.

(Grieving Mothers), (sculpture).

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Sculpture: bronze; Base: marble.

Sculpture: slightly larger than life-size.

To The Mothers of The Nation/And In Memory of/Henrietta Heckscher/Died in Child-Birth/June 11, 1912 signed

Woman kneeling with her proper left hand holding onto a stand. Her proper right hand is resting on the stand, holding a dish with her fingertips, raising it up, as if it were an offering. Her head lies on her proper left arm; her face cannot be seen.

Figure female -- Full length

Homage -- Heckscher, Henrietta Armitt Brown

State of Being -- Emotion -- Sorrow

Allegory -- Life -- Womanhood

Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Valley Forge

Washington Memorial Chapel, 108 Forge Hill Lane, P.O. Box 98, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

Commissioned by Stevens Heckscher, husband of Henrietta Armitt (Brown) Hechsher. He died on May 8, 1931 in Strafford, Pennsylvania.

Heckscher, Maurice, 1997.

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