Catalogue of a Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Augustus Saint-Gaudens
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64 ADAMS MONUMENT, ROCK CREEK CEMETERY, WASHINGTON, D.C. Plaster cast from bronze statue, unsigned and undated. [About 1 89 1.] A figure, enveloped in heavy drapery, which covers the head and body with the exception of the face and right arm, the hand of which supports the chin. Directed to the front, eyes lowered. Cast made by permission of Mr. Henry Adams. note. The monument consists of a block of granite against which the figure leans, and which forms one side of an hexagonal plot of about t...wenty feet in diameter. Opposite and occupying three sides of the hexagon is a massive stone bench. The figure has been variously in- terpreted, although Saint-Gaudens gave no name to it. 36 CATALOGUE 65 SEAL FOR THE PUBLIC LIBRARY BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS Plaster cast from stone reclangular "high relief signed. [189 1?] H. 4 ft.; W. 6 ft. A shield bearing a book, is supported on either side by nude figures of boys, each carrying a torch. Above, a ribbon scroll. Inscription OMNIVM LVX CIVIVM. MDCCCLII MDCCC- LXXXIII.
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