| George Washington | |
|---|---|
 Washington Crossing the Delaware | |
  George Washington  George Washington  George Washington | |
| Artist | Fratelli Gianfranchi |
| Year | c. 1876 |
| Medium | Carrara marble |
| Subject | George Washington,George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River |
| Dimensions | 4.3 m × 2.3 m × 2.1 m (14 ft × 7.4 ft × 6.9 ft) |
| Location | Mill Hill,Trenton, New Jersey, United States |
| Coordinates | 40°13′6.8″N74°45′41.2″W / 40.218556°N 74.761444°W /40.218556; -74.761444 (Statue of George Washington) |
George Washington, also known asWashington Crossing the Delaware, is a large 1876marble statue by the Italian sculptors Fratelli Gianfranchi. The sculpture depicts GeneralGeorge Washington in a pose taken from the 1851 paintingWashington Crossing the Delaware byEmanuel Leutze. It was owned by the bankerMahlon Dickerson Eyre and displayed at theCentennial Exposition of 1876 inPhiladelphia. The statue is currently in theMill Hill neighborhood of the city ofTrenton inMercer County, New Jersey, United States.[1]
Around 1876, sculptors Fratelli Gianfranchi[nb 1] fromCarrara, Italy, carved this large statue of George Washington from a single block ofCarrara marble. It was modeled on the paintingWashington Crossing the Delaware byEmanuel Leutze.[2][3] The owner of the statue wasMahlon Dickerson Eyre, a banker fromPhiladelphia, who was residing inFlorence, Italy, at the time. He loaned this colossal marble statue to the1876 Centennial Exposition, held inFairmount Park in Philadelphia.[4] On April 25, 1889, after Eyre's death, the statue was sold at auction for $300 to George R. Whittaker, accompanied by two councilmen fromTrenton, Edmund C. Hill and Lewis R. Lawton.[5] TheJunior Order of United American Mechanics erected a granite pedestal for the statue in 1892.[1] On October 18, 1892, the statue was unveiled and dedicated as the Washington Monument in the newly createdCadwalader Park in Trenton.[6] The statue was located on a bluff facing theDelaware River, whichWashington had crossed before his victory at theBattle of Trenton on the morning of December 26, 1776.[7] During the1976 Bicentennial, the statue was relocated to a plaza near theDouglass House in theMill Hill neighborhood of Trenton.[8] The house was Washington's headquarters on the night of January 2, 1777, after theBattle of the Assunpink Creek, the second battle of Trenton.[8][9]
Washington is shown standing in a boat, facing forward, with his right foot raised on the prow. He is wearing aContinental Army military uniform with a cape and atricorner hat withcockade. A sheathed sword is hanging on his left side. His left arm is bent holding the cape. His right hand holds a telescope. The statue is 14 feet (4.3 m) high. The statue is on a granite pedestal. The front inscription reads: “This pedestal was erected by the Jr. O. U. A. M. and presented to the city of Trenton, October 18th, 1892”.[1]
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The statue was executed by Fratelli Gianfranchi, of Carrara, Italy, who modeled it from Leutze's masterpiece
cut from one block
the colossal marble statue of Washington, which Mahlon Dickinson Eyre, American banker in Florence, Italy, will exhibit at the Centennial
A Heroic Sized Statue of Washington Crossing the Delaware Brings $300
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