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Detail of the statue, showing stirrup and no saddle. The monument consists of a bronze equestrian statue of Harrison atop a Barre granite pedestal. The bottom of the base measures 22 feet (6.7 m) by 15.5 feet (4.7 m). The phrases "Ohio's First President" and "William Henry Harrison" are engraved on opposite sides of the pedestal.
An equestrian statue is a statue of a rider mounted on a horse, from the Latin eques, meaning 'knight', deriving from equus, meaning 'horse'. [1] A statue of a riderless horse is strictly an equine statue. A full-sized equestrian statue is a difficult and expensive object for any culture to produce, and figures have typically been portraits of ...
Discovering the Enemy, 9th New York Cavalry Monument, by Caspar Buberl, 1888. 17th Pennsylvania Cavalry Monument, by Smith Granite Company, 1889. 8th Pennsylvania Cavalry Monument, by J.M. Gessler, ca. 1890. Major-General Meade, by Henry Kirke Bush-Brown, Cemetery Ridge, 1896. General Winfield Scott Hancock, by Frank Edwin Ellwell, Cemetery ...
The sculpture is titled Business Man on Horse. [23] The statue do not portray a specific individual. — Windsor, Ontario: William McElcheran Previously located on the grounds of Windsor Sculpture Park, although acts of vandalism against the sculpture led to its removal. The sculpture is titled Business Man on Horse. [24]
Brinkerhoff wanted a monument for the Ohio Pavilion in the World's Columbian Exposition, the 1893 Chicago world's fair. It was moved to Columbus at the fair's end. The statue originally displayed six Ohioans, though Ohio governor and later president William McKinley led efforts to add on a statue of Rutherford B. Hayes, his former commanding ...
This is a list of National Historic Landmarks in Ohio and other landmarks of equivalent landmark status in the state. The United States' National Historic Landmark (NHL) program is operated under the auspices of the National Park Service, and recognizes structures, districts, objects, and similar resources according to a list of criteria of national significance. [6]
The Horses of Neptune, illustration by Walter Crane, 1893. Horse symbolism is the study of the representation of the horse in mythology, religion, folklore, art, literature and psychoanalysis as a symbol, in its capacity to designate, to signify an abstract concept, beyond the physical reality of the quadruped animal.
The plaster monument was thrown in a mud pit in Marina Park, along with other works from the Exposition. The Tulare County Forestry Board purchased and rescued the statue in 1919, transporting it to Mooney Grove Park in Visalia, California, where it was placed near other notable sculptures such as Pioneer by Solon Borglum. Fraser was unaware of ...