These Are My Jewels, (sculpture).

These Are My Jewels, (sculpture).

Scofield, Levi T., 1842-1917, sculptor.

Bureau Brothers, founder.

Ames Manufacturing Company, founder.

American Bronze Company, founder.

These Are My Jewels, (sculpture).

Ohio's Jewels, (sculpture).

Ohio's Jewels: Grant, Sheridan, Stanton, Garfield, Hayes, Chase, and Sherman, (sculpture).

1893. Dedicated 1894. Rededicated June 10, 1965. Rededicated Nov. 5, 1992.

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Female figure: bronze with medium brown patina and gown of dark blue-brown patina; Male figures: bronze with various shades of brown patina; Base: gray granite.

Overall: approx. H. 31 ft.; Female figure: approx. 11 x 5 x 3 1/2 ft.; Male figures: each approx. 7 1/2 ft. x 34 in. x 30 in.; Base: approx. 20 x 14 x 14 ft.

(On granite base below female figure, centered and raised:) THESE ARE MY JEWELS (On proper left front of bronze plinth of each male figure:) Levi T. Scofield. Archt. Sculpt (At center front of bronze plinth of each male figure, the name of the figure is inscribed) (On proper right front of bronze plinth of figures of Garfield, Hayes, and Grant:) Ames Mfg. Co/Bronze Founder/Chicopee, Mass. (On proper right front of bronze plinth of figures of Stanton and Chase:) American Bronze Co. (On proper right front of bronze plinth of figures of Sherman and Sheridan:) Bureau Bros. Founders. (On bronze plate attached to granite base below figure of Grant:) General Ulysses S. Grant (On bronze plate attached to granite base below figure of Sheridan:) General Philip Sheridan (On bronze plate attached to granite base below figure of Stanton:) Edwin M. Stanton (On bronze plate attached to granite base below figure of Garfield:) James A. Garfield (On bronze plate attached to granite base below figure of Hayes:) Rutherford B. Hayes (On bronze plate attached to granite base below figure of Chase:) Salmon P. Chase (On bronze plate attached to granite base below figure of Sherman:) General William T. Sherman signed Founder's mark appears.

The monument is composed of a tall, round grey granite base on which the bronze figure of Roman matron Cornelia is mounted. Seven male figures are mounted in an outward facing circle approximately twelve feet beneath the feet of the figure of Cornelia. The seven figures are men from Ohio: Ulysses S. Grant, Philip Henry Sheridan, Edwin McMasters Stanton, James A. Garfield, Rutherford B. Hayes, Salmon P. Chase, and William Tecumseh Sherman. Each figure stands on a half-round base. The identities of the figures are inscribed on the front of the base and on a plaques mounted beneath each figure on the stone base.

Portrait female -- Unidentified -- Cornelia

Portrait male -- Grant, Ulysses S. -- Full length

Portrait male -- Sheridan, Philip Henry -- Full length

Portrait male -- Stanton, Edwin McMasters -- Full length

Portrait male -- Garfield, James A. -- Full length

Portrait male -- Hayes, Rutherford B. -- Full length

Portrait male -- Chase, Salmon P. -- Full length

Portrait male -- Sherman, William Tecumseh -- Full length

History -- United States -- Ohio

Occupation -- Political -- President

Occupation -- Political -- Cabinet Member

Occupation -- Political -- Governor

Occupation -- Law -- Chief Justice

Occupation -- Military -- General

Outdoor Sculpture -- Ohio -- Columbus

Administered by State of Ohio, Capitol Square Review and Advisory Board, State House, Columbus, Ohio 43215

Located Capitol, Columbus, Ohio

World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893.

The sculpture was funded by the State of Ohio at a cost of $30,000. It was first exhibited at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, but at that time the work depicted Cornelia and only six male figures from Ohio. The seventh figure, Rutherford B. Hayes, was not added until the work was installed on Capitol Square in Columbus, Ohio in 1894. American Bronze Company cast the figures of Stanton and Chase; Ames Manufacturing Company cast the figures of Garfield, Hayes, and Grant; and Bureau Brothers cast the figures of Sherman and Sheridan.

The monument was removed because of construction of an underground parking garage in the 1960s; it was returned in 1965. The monument was removed again in 1989 as part of the restoration of the Capitol; the monument was restored before being returned in Nov. 1992.

The concept of a sculpture of Cornelia to symbolize Ohio memorializing her famous sons, was proposed by General Roeliff Brinkerhoff in 1891. Cornelia was a Roman whose rich friends mocked her lack of jewels; in response she presented her sons as her "jewels." Her sons later ruled Rome as the Gracchi.

IAS files contain detailed descriptions of the monument's figures and base, as well as copies of articles from Columbus Citizen Journal, June 10, 1965; Columbus Dispatch, April 27, 1989 and Nov. 6, 1992, pg. B-2, and Ohio State House Restoration Report (Summer 1991).

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Ohio, Columbus survey, 1993.

Ohio State House Restoration Report (Summer 1991).

Columbus Dispatch, April 27, 1989, pg. D-6.

Campen, Richard N., "Outdoor Sculpture in Ohio," Chagrin Falls, Ohio: West Summit Press, 1980, pg. 12, 20.

Doezema, Marianne, and June Hargrove, "The Public Monument and Its Audience," Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, n.d., pg. 10-11.

Arter, Bill, "Columbus Vignettes IV," N.p., 1971, pg. 44.

Columbus Citizen Journal, June 10, 1965.

Campen, Richard N., "Outdoor Sculpture in Ohio," Chagrin Falls, Ohio: West Summit Press, 1980, pg. 20.

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