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George Washington is a statue of United States President George Washington. Created by Joseph A. Bailly, it is located at Independence Hall, Philadelphia on Chestnut street between 5th and 6th streets. [1]
marble statue, now at Philadelphia City Hall: Statue of George Washington: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Independence Hall. 1910 Joseph A. Bailly: bronze replica of the 1869 statue Equestrian statue of George Washington: Boston, Massachusetts. Boston Public Garden. 1869 Thomas Ball: Statue of George Washington: Trenton, New Jersey. Douglass House ...
George Washington is a life-size wooden statue by the American sculptor William Rush and located in the portrait gallery of the Second Bank of the United States in Philadelphia. It depicts George Washington in colonial dress and was initially displayed in 1815 at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. It was relocated in 1824 to Independence Hall.
The bronze and granite sculpture features a uniformed George Washington mounted on a horse. Washington and his horse are poised on top of the fountain, facing southeast down the Benjamin Franklin Parkway towards Philadelphia City Hall. The face of the sculpture was made from an impression of the former president made while he was still alive.
George Washington (1869), Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This was replaced by a bronze replica in 1910; the marble original is on display at Philadelphia City Hall . Joseph Alexis Bailly (January 21, 1823 or 1825 – June 15, 1883) was an American sculptor who spent most of his career in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania .
He loaned this colossal marble statue to the 1876 Centennial Exposition, held in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia. [4] On April 25, 1889, the statue was sold at auction for $300 to George R. Whittaker, accompanied by two councilmen from Trenton, Edmund C. Hill and Lewis R. Lawton. [5]
Philadelphia served as the national capital from 1790 to 1800 while Washington, D.C. was under construction. During this time, the house was owned by Revolutionary War financier and Founding Father Robert Morris, who gave the house to George Washington. Washington brought nine enslaved Africans from Mount Vernon to work in his presidential ...
This is a list of public artworks in Philadelphia. The Association for Public Art estimates the city has hundreds of public artworks; [ 1 ] the Smithsonian lists more than 700. [ 2 ] Since 1959 nearly 400 works of public art have been created as part of the city's Percent for Art program, the first such program in the U.S. [ 3 ]