| Statue of Alexander Hamilton | |
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 The statue in 2017 | |
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| Artist | William Rimmer |
| Medium | Granite sculpture |
| Subject | Alexander Hamilton |
| Location | Boston,Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 42°21′12.4″N71°4′20.8″W / 42.353444°N 71.072444°W /42.353444; -71.072444 |
A statue ofAlexander Hamilton byWilliam Rimmer is installed alongCommonwealth Avenue, between Arlington and Berkeley Streets, inBoston,Massachusetts, United States.
The 1864–1865 granite statue measures approximately 10 ft. x 3 ft. 4 in. x 3 ft. 4 in., and rests on a granite base measuring 8 ft. 5 in. x 5 ft. 4 in. x 5 ft. 4 in. The base has three relief portrait busts depicting Hamilton,John Jay, andGeorge Washington.[citation needed]
The artwork was surveyed by theSmithsonian Institution's "Save Outdoor Sculpture!" program in 1993.[1]
The statue was widely regarded as a failure by nineteenth-century commentators. The critic George B. Woods stated that Hamilton appeared to be "swathed like an infant or a mummy."[2] William H. Downes wrote that it "suggested a snow image which had partly melted."[2]Lincoln Kirstein, writing in 1961, offered a more favorable assessment, commenting that "the mass and its drapery are powerfully suggestive, anticipatingRodin'sBalzac in the looming treatment of the rising form."[2]
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