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    Oliver Wendell Holmes Memorial, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Unknown, sculptor.
    Title: 
    Oliver Wendell Holmes Memorial, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1915.
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: marble; Base: marble.
    Dimensions: 
    Overall: approx. 48 x 15 x 10 ft.
    Inscription: 
    (On front of pedestal:) OLIVER/WENDELL/HOLMES/1809-1894 (On back of pedestal:) PHYSICIAN/PHILOSOPHER/POET/A MAN HONORED/AND BELOVED/BY MANY/MCMXV (On exedra bench:) FOR OVER 20 YEARS/DR. HOLMES LIVED AT NO. 296/BEACON STREET. HIS LIBRARY/OVERLOOKS THIS MEMORIAL unsigned
    Description: 
    A semicircular plaza adorned with an exedra bench and two steps leading to a small circular pedestal. The pedestal is carved around the top with a shell design. Each end of the exedra bench is carved with a claw and ball foot.
    Subject: 
    Homage -- Holmes, Oliver Wendell
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Massachusetts -- Boston
    Exedra
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by City of Boston, Metropolitan District Commission, Boston, Massachusetts
    Located Charles River Esplanade, Storrow Drive at Dartmouth, Boston, Massachusetts
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Massachusetts survey, 1997.
    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 MA000209
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