Click here to loginLoginView my BookbagMy List - 0HelpHelp
 Search 
 Search Images 
 About 
   
KeywordBrowseCombinedHighlightsSearch HistoryAll Catalogs
Search:    Refine Search  
> You are only searching: Art Inventories
More Smithsonian Searches
 
 Who else has...
 
  •  
    		• Salladin Marble Works,
     
  •  
    		• Figure female -- Child
     
  •  
    		• Figure female -- Full length
     
  •  
    		• Homage -- Sweet, Cora L.
     
  •  
    		• Object -- Flower
     
  •  
    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- New York
     
  •  
    		• Gravestone
     
  •  
    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Cora L. Sweet Monument, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Salladin Marble Works, fabricator.
    Title: 
    Cora L. Sweet Monument, (sculpture).
    Digital Reference: 
    Image Image Image Image Image
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: marble; Base: marble.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. 37 x 13 x 13 1/2 in.; Base: approx. 13 x 18 x 18 in.
    Inscription: 
    (Incised on rock on which figure leans:) A. SALLADIN & SONS, OSWEGO (Incised on base, front:) CORA L./Daughter of/H. H. & M. E. SWEET/1893-1905 Founder's mark appears.
    Description: 
    Full-length figure of a female child stands against a rock. She has shoulder-length hair and wears a knee-length dress with a square neck, three-quarter sleeves and a bow in the back. She is barefoot and holds the stem of a lily in her proper left hand. Her proper right hand is extended.
    Subject: 
    Figure female -- Child
    Figure female -- Full length
    Homage -- Sweet, Cora L.
    Object -- Flower -- Lily
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- New York
    Gravestone
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by Town of Scriba, Scriba Town Hall, Scriba Corners, Oswego, New York 13126
    Located Worden-Sweet Cemetery, Middle Road, Town of Scriba, Oswego County, New York
    Remarks: 
    The monument was erected in honor of Cora Sweet, who was murdered on May 28, 1905 at the age of 11. Funds for the monument were raised through public subscription. IAS files include an article from the Oswego Daily Palladium, 1905 which described the funeral and an article from the Palladium-Times (Oswego, New York), Aug. 4, 1993. For related reading, see the Oswego Daily Palladium, May 29, 105, May 31, 1905 and June 1, 1905 and the Post-Standard (Syracuse, New York), May 30, 1905.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, New York survey, 1993.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    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 NY001642
    Add to my list 
    Copy/Holding information
    Smithsonian AmericanArt MuseumControl Number 
    Inventory of American SculptureNY001642Add Copy to MyList

    Format:HTMLPlain textDelimited
    Subject: 
    Email to:


    Horizon Information Portal 3.0
     Powered by SirsiDynix
    About | © 2020 Smithsonian | Terms of Use | Privacy | Contact
    SIRIS - Smithsonian Institution Research Information System