Barbara Fritchie, (sculpture).

Barbara Fritchie, (sculpture).

Kelly, James Edward, 1855-1933, designer.

Barbara Fritchie, (sculpture).

Dedicated Sept. 9, 1914.

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Sculpture: bronze; Base: rough-hewn Maryland granite.

Sculpture: approx. H. 6 ft. x W. 2 ft.; Base: approx. 12 x 7 x 7 ft.

Kelly July 4, 1914 (On plaque, below portrait:) BARBARA FRITCHIE/BY JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER (Text of poem follows) (On plaque at rear of monument, near base:) ERECTED BY THE/BARBARA FRITCHIE/MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION 1914 (The sitter's name is also incised at the top of the tondo and appears in raised letters on the front, atop the base) signed

Tondo with profile of Barbara Fritchie is installed on a rectangular marker. The figure is an old woman who wears a soft fabric cap and shawl. She is superimposed over the American flag. Below the tondo is a plaque with the text of the poem "Barbara Fritchie" by John Greenleaf Whittier.

Portrait female -- Fritchie, Barbara -- Bust

Portrait female -- Fritchie, Barbara -- Elderly

Literature -- Whittier -- Barbara Fritchie

History -- United States -- Civil War

Object -- Other -- Flag

Outdoor Sculpture -- Maryland -- Frederick

Mount Olivet Cemetery, 515 South Market Street, Southwestern section, Frederick, Maryland 21701

Erected by the Barbara Fritchie Memorial Association after the remains of Barbara Fritchie and her husband John C. Fritchie were moved from the Old German Reformed graveyard in Frederick in 1913 and reinterred in Mount Olivet Cemetery. A resident of Frederick during the Civil War, Barbara Fritchie reputedly flew a Union flag out her window while Stonewall Jackson and his troops were marching near her home in 1862. IAS files include the text of the Whittier poem on the plaque.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Maryland survey, 1994.

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