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    		• Cummings, Melvin Earl,
     
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    		• History -- United States
     
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    		• Animal -- Reptile
     
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    		• Portrait male -- Cabrillo, Juan Rodriquez
     
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    		• Ethnic -- Portuguese
     
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    		• Occupation -- Other
     
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    		• Portrait male -- Drake, Francis
     
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    		• Ethnic -- British
     
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    		• Portrait male -- Ximenes, Fortuno
     
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    		• Object -- Other
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- California -- San Francisco
     
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    		• Sundial
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Sundial, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Cummings, Melvin Earl, 1876-1936, sculptor.
    Title: 
    Sundial, (sculpture).
    Other Titles: 
    Turtle Sundial, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    ca. 1905. Dedicated Oct. 12, 1907.
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: bronze; Pedestal: granite or California marble; Base: concrete or limestone.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. H. 3 ft. 1 in. x W. 28 1/2 in. x Diam. 30 in.; Pedestal: approx. H. 55 1/2 in. x W. 33 1/2 in.; Base: approx. H. 19 in. x W. 17 ft. 9 1/2 in.
    Inscription: 
    (On inner front of sundial, incised letters:) HORAM.SOLE.NOLNTE.NEGO (On outer front of sundial, raised Roman numerals designating 6 am to 6 pm) (On upper section of pedestal, around circumference, incised letters:) THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAMES IN CALIFORNIA/TO THE GOLDEN GATE PARK OCTOBER 12, 1907/TO HONOR THE FIRST NAVIGATORS OF THE CALIFORNIA COAST/FORTUNO XIMENES 1534 JUAN DE CABRILLO 1542 SIR FRANCIS DRAKE 1579 unsigned
    Description: 
    A sundial supported by a bronze sea turtle with a tilted half sphere on the turtle's back. The flat side of the half-sphere is the face of the sundial. At the top of the sundial are three interlaced bronze medallion bas-relief bust-length portraits of navigators Fortuno Ximenes, Juan de Cabrillo, and Sir Francis Drake. On the sphere side of the sundial are the continents of North and South America in bas-relief. The sculpture rests atop a granite Roman column with a fluted lower section. The pedestal is placed atop a wide three-tiered square base.
    Subject: 
    History -- United States -- Discovery of U.S.
    Animal -- Reptile -- Turtle
    Portrait male -- Cabrillo, Juan Rodriquez -- Bust
    Ethnic -- Portuguese
    Occupation -- Other -- Explorer
    Portrait male -- Drake, Francis -- Bust
    Ethnic -- British
    Portrait male -- Ximenes, Fortuno -- Bust
    Object -- Other -- Globe
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- California -- San Francisco
    Sundial
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by City and County of San Francisco, San Francisco Arts Commission, Public Monuments, 25 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 240, San Francisco, California 94102
    Located Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, Golden Gate Park, Northwest Corner, San Francisco, California 94118
    Remarks: 
    The sculpture was commissioned by the National Society of Colonial Dames to honor the first three navigators of the California coast, Fortuno Ximenes, Juan de Cabrillo, and Sir Francis Drake. For related reading see: Martin Snipper's "A Survey of Art Work in the City and County of San Francisco," San Francisco: Art Commission, City and County of San Francisco, 1975.
    References: 
    National Park Service, American Monuments and Outdoor Sculpture Database, CA2064, 1989.
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, California, San Francisco survey, 1992.
    Monumental News, Feb. 1908, pg. 115.
    Illustration: 
    Monumental News, Feb. 1908, pg. 115.
    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 CA000986
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