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Columbus' Last Appeal to Queen Isabella is a statuary group which was previously installed in the California State Capitol in Sacramento in 1883. [1] It was the work of Larkin Goldsmith Mead (1835-1910). The statues were removed in 2020. [2]
Queen Isabella, also known as Queen Isabella (1451–1504), [1] is an outdoor sculpture of Isabella I of Castile, installed outside the Pan American Union Building of the Organization of American States at 17th Street and Constitution Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., in the United States.
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Hosmer exhibited her sculpture of Queen Isabella, commissioned by the Queen Isabella Association, [16] in the California State Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. The statue was exhibited again in 1894 at the California Midwinter International Exposition .
Isabella's younger brother Alfonso was born two years later on 17 November 1453, demoting her position to third in line. [7] When her father died in 1454, her half-brother ascended to the throne as King Henry IV. Isabella and her brother Alfonso were left in King Henry's care. [8] Isabella, Alfonso, and their mother then moved to Arévalo. [5] [9]
The Queen Isabella Association was formed to raise funds to provide a statue of Queen Isabella of Spain on the site of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. The group's additional purpose was to advance the cause of women's suffrage and equal rights.
The "larger-than-life", full length statue stands above a plinth adorned with a lotus blossom design and a concrete base with an anti-graffiti coating. [1] The base includes rosettes and a bronze plaque. [1] One inscription below the statue reads the text of the tablet in English, Akkadian cuneiform and Aramaic.