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COLUMBIAN HISTORICAL EXPOSITION AT MADRID. 



granite from Baveno, Italy, Upon the pedestal in front of the fountain is a bronze 

 statue of Columbus 7 feet high, designed by R. H. Park, and cast in the Royal Foundry 

 at Rome. The inscription reads, &quot; Ice-water drinking fountain, presented to the city 

 of Chicago by John B. Drake, 1892.&quot; 



Xo. 88. THE LIVERPOOL STATUE. 



On the portico of the Exchange building in 

 Liverpool, England, stands a statue of Colum 

 bus, which was erected in 1866, and it is the 

 only monument that was ever erected to Co 

 lumbus in Europe outside of Italy and Spain. 



Xo. 89 THE XASSAU STATUE. 



A statue of Columbus at Nassau, New Provi 

 dence, in the Bahama Islands, was presented 

 to the colony by Sir James Carmichael Smyth, 

 governor of the Bahamas from 1829 to 1833. 

 It was modeled in London in 1831, by an art 

 ist named Groggon. The monument stands 

 directly in front of the Government house, is 

 made of metal, and painted white. The figure 

 is 9 feet high, and is placed upon a pedestal 6 

 feet high and 5 feet square. On the northern 

 and seaward side of the pedestal is the in 

 scription, Columbus, 1492.&quot; It was erected 

 in May, 1832. 



THE CARDEXAS STATUE. 



TABLET IN CATHEDRAL AT HAVANA. 



There is a statue at Cardenas, Cuba, which 



was erected by the celebrated Cuban authoress, Sefiora G. Gomez de Avellaneda, 

 the wife of a former governor. It was carved by J. Piguer, of Madrid. 



Nos. 91 AND 92. THE CATHEDRAL TABLET, HAVAXA. STATUE IX THE CAPTAIX- 

 GEXERAL S PALACE, HAVAXA. BUST IN EL TEMPLETE, HAVAXA. COLUMBUS 

 IX CHAINS, HAVAXA. 



In addition to the marble tablet that is embedded in the wall of the cathedral at 

 Havana, where the remains of Columbus are supposed to rest, there are three statues 

 to the discoverer in that city. One, a full- 

 length, heroic figure in marble, stands 

 upon a lofty pedestal in the courtyard of 

 the palace of the captain- general. The 

 second is a marble bust upon a column in 

 front of the little chapel, &quot; El Templete,&quot; 

 which marks the spot where the first mass 

 was celebrated on the island of Cuba ; and 

 the third is an impressive figure of an old 

 man in chains sitting on the deck of a 

 vessel, which ornaments the library of 

 the Bibliotheca Publica, of the Royal 

 Economical Society of the Friends of the 

 Country, which has kindly loaned it for 



exhibition in La Rabida. It was modeled 



by Valtmijana, at Barcelona, Spain. COLUMBUS IN CHAINS. 



Xo.93. THE MELERO STATUE. 



Mr. Miguel Melero, director of the Academy of Painting and Sculpture at Havana, 

 has designed and finished in gypsum a statue of Columbus that will be cast in bronze 

 for the city of Colon, in the State of Matanzas, Cuba. The work is paid for by the 

 generosity of a rich sugar planter in Matanzas. 



