National Gallery of Art · Sculpture
America
Hiram Powers
- Date
- model 1850-1854, carved after 1854
- Medium
- marble
- Dimensions
- overall: 70.17 × 48.26 × 35.24 cm (27 5/8 × 19 × 13 7/8 in.)
- Classification
- Sculpture · Bust
- Accession number
- 2015.19.3718
- Credit line
- Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mr. Henry de C. May, 1948)
- Time span
- 1826 to 1850
- Department
- CSD
Subjects and terms
- American
- carved
- Acquired after publication of European [and American] Sculpture of the Nineteenth Century
- Neoclassic
- state
- symbol
- bust
- figure
- America
Provenance
Henry de Courcy May [d. 1957]; gift 1948 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.
Inscription
on the back: H. POWERS Sculp.
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