''Robert Morris'' is a bronze statue by
Paul Wayland Bartlett
Paul Wayland Bartlett (January 24, 1865 – September 20, 1925) was an American sculptor working in the Beaux-Arts tradition of heroic realism.
Life
Bartlett was born in New Haven, Connecticut, the son of Truman Howe Bartlett, an art critic a ...
commemorating
American Revolution
The American Revolution was an ideological and political revolution that occurred in British America between 1765 and 1791. The Americans in the Thirteen Colonies formed independent states that defeated the British in the American Revoluti ...
financier and statesman
Robert Morris.
It is located at
Independence Hall
Independence Hall is a historic civic building in Philadelphia, where both the United States Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution were debated and adopted by America's Founding Fathers. The structure forms the centerpi ...
, on 4th Street and
Walnut Street,
Philadelphia
Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania#Municipalities, largest city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the List of United States cities by population, sixth-largest city i ...
.
It was dedicated on June 18, 1926, at the
Second Bank of the United States
The Second Bank of the United States was the second federally authorized Hamiltonian national bank in the United States. Located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the bank was chartered from February 1816 to January 1836.. The Bank's formal name, ...
on
Chestnut Street, but was relocated in 1961.
The inscription reads:
(Sculpture, lower
proper right
Proper right and proper left are conceptual terms used to unambiguously convey relative direction when describing an image or other object. The "proper right" hand of a figure is the hand that would be regarded by that figure as its right hand. ...
edge:)
Paul W. Bartlett Sc.
(Sculpture, rear right side:)
J. Arthur Limerick Co.
Founders . Balto.
(Base, front:)
signed Founder's mark appears.
"Robert Morris, (sculpture)"
''SIRIS''
See also
* List of public art in Philadelphia
This is a list of public artworks in Philadelphia. The Association for Public Art estimates the city has thousands of public artworks; the Smithsonian lists more than 700. Since 1959 nearly 400 works of public art have been created as part of ...
References
External links
*http://www.nps.gov/inde/planyourvisit/plaques-and-statues-in-the-park.htm
*http://dcmemorials.com/index_indiv0006540.htm
*http://www.philadelphiafaithandfreedom.com/robertmorrisstatue
*https://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/2550222618/
Outdoor sculptures in Philadelphia
1923 sculptures
Bronze sculptures in Pennsylvania
Independence National Historical Park
Statues in Pennsylvania
Sculptures of men in Pennsylvania
1920s establishments in Pennsylvania
Monuments and memorials in Pennsylvania
Relocated buildings and structures in Pennsylvania
Statues of U.S. Founding Fathers
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