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    		• Homage -- Pierson, Abraham
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Connecticut -- Clinton
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Open Books, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Unknown, sculptor.
    Title: 
    Open Books, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Dedicated June 17, 1868.
    Medium: 
    Monument: granite; Base: granite.
    Dimensions: 
    Monument: approx. 15 x 3 x 3 ft.; Base: approx. 1 x 4 x 4 ft.
    Inscription: 
    (On lower front of monument:) THE EARLIEST SENIOR CLASSES OF/YALE COLLEGE/WERE TAUGHT NEAR THIS SPOT BY RECTOR ABRAHAM PIERSON/1701 TO 1707 (On back of monument:) IN MEMORIAM/ABRAHAM/PIERSON VIRI INGENIO, DOCTRINA, PIETATE, PRAEDITL/QUI, ON A ALMS, SUI SIM/LIBUS/FUNDAMENTA DECIT PRIMI/APUD CONNECTICUTENSES COLLEGII/CUUUS PRIMUS QUIQUE PRAESES FUIT (On book around circumference of pages, raised:) I GIVE/THESE BOOKS/FOR FUNDING/A COLLEGE unsigned
    Description: 
    A tall doric column topped with a grouping of books, some are on their sides, some stand upright. The column sits on a square cube on which text is inscribed. The cube sits on a square base.
    Subject: 
    Object -- Written Matter -- Book
    Homage -- Pierson, Abraham
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Connecticut -- Clinton
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    First Church of Christ, 331 Main Street, Congregational Church Green, Clinton, Connecticut 06413
    Remarks: 
    The memorial commemorates the founding of Yale University by the Rev. Dr. Abraham Pierson in 1701 near where the monument stands.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Connecticut 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 CT000293
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