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STATUE AT ST. LOUIS. 



Xo. 75. THE ST. LOUIS STATUE. 



In 1886 a statue of Columbus was inaugurated at St. Louis, the gift of Mr. Henry 

 Shaw, a public-spirited citizen of that place. It consists of the single figure of 

 Columbus, in gilt bronze, of heroic size, standing on a somewhat lofty granite 

 pedestal, which is enriched by four bronze 

 panels, with reliefs portraying prominent 

 events in his career. He is represented at 

 the moment when, on the evening of the 

 llth of October, 1492, he imagined ho saw 

 a light in the westward, and is looking 

 forward with an expression half anxious, 

 half triumphant, to this beacon of an un 

 known world. The face of this statue is 

 copied from that at Genoa. The figure 

 was modeled and cast in the Miiller 

 foundry at Munich. 



No. 76. THE INSPIRATION OF COLUMBUS. 



Some years ago Mr. A. P. Chamberlaine, 



of Concord, Mass , presented to the Acad 

 emy of Fine Arts, Boston, a beautiful 



piece of marble representing the First 



Inspiration of the Boy Columbus. He is 



represented as a youth, in the costume of 



the period, sitting upon the capstan of a 



vessel, with an open book in his hand, and 



his foot carelessly swinging in an iron ring that hangs from a staple in the capstan. 



It is the work of Guilio Monteverde, a young artist of 

 Rome, in 1871, and was awarded the first gold medal 

 at the National Art Exhibition at Parma that year. A 

 duplicate is owned by Prince Giovauelli, of Florence. 

 Monteverde is now a senator in the Italian Parliament. 



Xo. 77. STATUE IX LOUISBURG- SQUARE, BOSTON. 



There is another statue in Boston of Columbus as 

 a boy, which stands in Louisburg Square, and was 

 presented to the city in 

 1849 by Joseph lasigi, 

 a wealthy resident, of 

 Grecian nativity. It 

 was carved in Leghorn. 



Xo. 78. THE SACRA 

 MENTO GROUP. 



INSPIRATION OF THE BOY COLUMBUS. 



A marble group, rep 

 resenting Columbus explaining his theory of a western 

 passage to the Indies to Queen Isabella, was presented 

 to the State of California by Mr. D. O. Mills, of New 

 York City. It stands in the rotunda of the capitol 

 at Sacramento. Larkin G. Mead was the sculptor. It 

 was carved in Italy, from a single block of marble, 

 and cost $60,000. 



The most conspicuous ornament on the building of 



the Long Island Historical Library, Brooklyn, is a terra-cotta bust of Columbus, of 

 modern but artistic workmanship, by Olin L. Warner, of New York, who took 

 for his model the bust at Genoa, but introduced some changes of costume, including 

 a headdress. 



SACRAMENTO GROUP 



