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    		• Unknown (Italian),
     
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    		• Homage -- Ridley, Nannie Moses
     
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    		• Figure female -- Full length
     
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    		• Dress -- Historic
     
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    		• Emblem -- Cross
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Georgia -- LaGrange
     
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    		• Gravestone
     
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    Nannie Moses Ridley Gravemarker, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Unknown (Italian), sculptor.
    Title: 
    Nannie Moses Ridley Gravemarker, (sculpture).
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: marble; Base: marble.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. 5 ft. 2 in. x 2 ft. x 1 ft. 5 in.; Base: approx. 5 ft. x 3 ft. 10 in. x 3 ft. 2 in.
    Inscription: 
    (Sculptor's signature on lower proper right of sculpture) (Front of base:) NANNIE MOSES/WIFE OF/F.M. RIDLEY/FEB.21,1862./OCT.5,1889./This memorial/is a husband's tribute to a beloved wife who was the/desire of his eyes and filled every want of his nature. Her/life, a form of beauty rich in every womanly grace and/value was by death crowned with all it needed,Immortality./She is gone to the Mountain of Myrrh and to the hill of Fran-/insence (sic) until the day break and shadows flee away./RIDLEY (Back of base:) He giveth His beloved sleep. signed
    Description: 
    A young woman stands wearing a long cape latched with a brooch over a buttoned, full-length, gathered gown. She has long flowing hair that comes over her proper right shoulder. Her proper right hand cradles flowers and her proper left hand touches a rustic cross by her side that is draped in a flower garland with a scroll before it. The sculpture is mounted upon a multitiered base and is the gravemarker for Nannie Moses Ridley, 1862-1889.
    Subject: 
    Homage -- Ridley, Nannie Moses
    Figure female -- Full length
    Dress -- Historic
    Emblem -- Cross
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Georgia -- LaGrange
    Gravestone
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by City of LaGrange, Cemetery Department, 201 Bacon Street, LaGrange, Georgia 30240
    Located Hillview Cemetery, New Franklin Road, LaGrange, Georgia 30240
    Remarks: 
    Handcarved in Italy. Nannie Moses Ridley was married to a prominent Dr. Ridley for eight years and died of blood poisoning. For related information see Clark Johnson III's "Memories in Marble," Troup County Archives (La Grange, Georgia).
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Georgia, Atlanta 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 GA000269
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