Boston Public Garden is a photograph by JAMART Photography which was uploaded on October 22nd, 2012.
Boston Public Garden
FAA1483
Public Garden
Boston MA
2012
An equestrian statue of George Washington by Thomas Ball is installed in Boston's Public Garden,... more
Title
Boston Public Garden
Artist
JAMART Photography
Medium
Photograph - Art Photography
Description
FAA1483
Public Garden
Boston MA
2012
An equestrian statue of George Washington by Thomas Ball is installed in Boston's Public Garden, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts.
The sculpture was commissioned in 1859, modeled in 1864, and cast and dedicated in 1869. The bronze measures approximately 22 x 6 x 15 ft, and rests on a granite base that measures approximately 16 x 8 x 15 ft. It was surveyed by the Smithsonian Institution's "Save Outdoor Sculpture!" program in 1993.
The monument was conceived in an effort to present Massachusetts as an artistic center. The chairman of the fundraising committee for the monument, Alexander H. Rice, declared in a speech from 1859:
This statue shall exhibit the resources of our own State in the production of works of its class. The artist is a citizen of Boston; the statue will be modeled here; it will also be cast in bronze at some one of the foundries of Massachusetts, and it is expected that abundant funds for defraying its cost will flow from the generosity of our own people.
Over the years, the statue's sword has repeatedly been broken and stolen; to avoid continually recasting a bronze replacement, caretakers installed a fiberglass substitute.
https://www.boston.gov/parks/public-garden
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October 22nd, 2012
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