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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- New Hampshire -- Manchester
     
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    (The Angel), (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Unknown, sculptor.
    Title: 
    (The Angel), (sculpture).
    Other Titles: 
    L'Ange, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Installed late 1920's - early 1930's.
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: possibly iron, painted; Base: granite.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. 5 ft. 8 in. x 32 in. x 20 in.; Base: approx. 56 x 36 x 38 in.
    Inscription: 
    unsigned
    Description: 
    Full-length female figure of an angel. She wears long flowing robes belted at the waist. She holds high a Celtic cross in her proper right hand. In her proper left hand she holds a yew or laurel wreath at hip level. She is barefoot and her wings are spread out behind her. The metal sculpture stands on a granite block pedestal.
    Subject: 
    Religion -- Angel
    Emblem -- Cross
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- New Hampshire -- Manchester
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Mount Calvary Cemetery, 474 Goffstown Road, Manchester, New Hampshire 03102
    Remarks: 
    The sculpture was installed during the late 1920's or early 1930's. IAS files contain related excerpt from Maurice Trottier's "Paroisse Sainte Marie 1880-1980", Manchester: Lafayette Publishers, 1980, pg. 61-63.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, New Hampshire survey, 1994.
    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 NH000472
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