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    		• Palmer, Erastus Dow,
     
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    		• Wallace, T. J.,
     
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    		• Homage -- Campbell, Daniel
     
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    		• State of Being -- Emotion
     
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    		• Figure female -- Full length
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- New York
     
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    		• Relief
     
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    		• Gravestone
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Grief, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Palmer, Erastus Dow, 1817-1904, sculptor.
    Wallace, T. J., assistant.
    Title: 
    Grief, (sculpture).
    Other Titles: 
    Daniel Campbell Monument, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1852.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image Image
    Medium: 
    Marble.
    Dimensions: 
    Relief: approx. H. 31 1/2 x W. 28 1/2 in.
    Inscription: 
    (On lower side of monument, in tablet, raised lettering:) THE YOUNG MEN OF THE/CITY OF ALBANY,/IN THEIR GRIEF FOR HIS TOO/EARLY REMOVAL,/HAVE ERECTED THIS/MONUMENT/TO THE MEMORY OF/DANIEL CAMPBELL/A MAN WHO LOVED HUMANITY/AS MOST LOVE THEIR NEAREST/KINDRED, AND WHO SOUGHT AS/HIS ONLY RICHES,/THE BLESSING OF THE NEEDY unsigned
    Description: 
    A multitiered monument with a tablet on the lower section containing a relief of a woman crouching, her proper right knee on the ground, her proper left knee raised. Her head rests on her proper left hand as her elbow rests on her proper left knee. She wears a long dress, or perhaps drapery, with a clasp at the shoulder, and she may have a narrow belt at her waist. The relief tablet is pentagonal, in the shape of a Tudor arch, on one side of a multitiered, shaft-like monument. Another lower side of the monument has an identically-shaped tablet with an inscription.
    Subject: 
    Homage -- Campbell, Daniel
    State of Being -- Emotion -- Sorrow
    Figure female -- Full length
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- New York
    Relief
    Gravestone
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Restricted Owner, Albany County, New York
    Remarks: 
    The monument marks the grave of Daniel Campbell. T. J. Wallace also worked with the artist on the "Grief" tablet.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, New York survey, 1994.
    Webster, J. Carson, "Erastus D. Palmer," Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1983, pg. 147.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Webster, J. Carson, "Erastus D. Palmer," Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1983, pl. 39.
    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 NY000478
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