Out-Door Monuments 



Nor is it only when busts are to be placed 

 that the architect may help in giving a mon- 

 ument sufficient size. The circle where the 

 Webster stands demands a large monument. 

 An equestrian statue or a group might well 

 have been placed there ; but a smaller stand- 

 ing figure, on a lower but more spreading 

 architectural base, would also have looked 

 well. Where such a circle is formed, not 

 by drives but by paths, a smaller monument 

 would be more appropriate; and no such 

 spot should be given its adornment without 

 nice consideration of this question of scale (as 

 concerned both with the extent of the spot 

 and with the character of the objects around 

 it), in full consciousness of the fact that a 

 mistake will injure both the work of art as 

 such and the general effect of the locality. 



Another important point is the height 

 above the eye at which a statue stands. In 

 city streets or squares this is determined sim- 

 ply by the pedestal. But in parks there are 

 often excellent situations well above the 

 roads and walks. Statues placed here will 

 be seen, not against a background of build- 

 ings or fohage, but outlined against the sky ; 



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