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Monument to the Memory of David A. Sayre, (sculpture). Artist:  Unknown, sculptor. Robert Wood & Company, founder. Title:  Monument to the Memory of David A. Sayre, (sculpture). Dates:  Installed 1881. Medium:  Statue: bronze; Base: marble and granite. Dimensions:  Sculpture: approx. 6 ft. x 24 in. x 24 in.; Base: approx. 6 ft. 5 in. x 7 ft. 11 in. x 7 ft. 11 in. Inscription:  Robt. Wood & Co. Founders Phila. (On front of base:) TO THE MEMORY/OF/DAVID AUSTIN SAYRE/AND HIS WIFE/ABBY VANHOLT SAYRE./BORN NOVEMBER 17, 1798/DIED MARCH 10, 1871. (Back and sides of base inscribed with names of additional Sayre family members with birth and death dates) unsigned Founder's mark appears. Description:  Standing figure of mature man in early 19th-century attire, enclosed in a roofed Greek temple. Man wears unbuttoned knee-length jacket, waistcoat, high-collar, and tie. He stands with both feet firmly planted, proper right forward and proper left behind; grasps a rolled document in proper right hand. Proper left arm hangs free by left side. Statue stands at center of temple, which consists of four fluted columns supporting a roof with a single deep coffer. Temple stands on a high four-sided base, inscribed on each side. Subject:  Portrait male -- Sayre, David Austin -- Full length Occupation -- Monetary -- Banker Architecture -- Classical -- Temple Object -- Written Matter -- Scroll Object Type:  Gravestone Outdoor Sculpture -- Kentucky -- Lexington Sculpture Owner:  Lexington Cemetery, 833 West Main Street, Section O, Lexington, Kentucky Remarks:  IAS files contain copy of related excerpt found in Burton Milward's "A History of Lexington Cemetery," 1989, pg. 32. References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, Kentucky 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 KY000013   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture KY000013 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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