Out-Door Monuments 



not allowed to choose whether he will sub- 

 ordinate it or not. 



Of course works of sculpture, or of archi- 

 tecture and sculpture combined, are just 

 as appropriate for urban adornment when 

 their value is simply artistic as when it is 

 commemorative, historical. Indeed, there 

 is a chance that beauty will be greater 

 in such w^orks than in portrait-monuments, 

 and so it is especially desirable, for the 

 sake of the public's pleasure^ and the de- 

 velopment of its taste, that they should 

 be more generally placed in our streets and 

 parks. When they are given to a city the 

 question of site will almost ahvays arise af- 

 ter the artist has finished his work. Then, 

 if possible, he should be consulted with re- 

 gard to its placing; and in any case this 

 placing should be very carefully considered. 

 Likewise, the pedestal should be as intelli- 

 gently designed as that of a portrait-figure. 

 For neither class of works is a plain base 

 always the best ; and nothing less than the 

 best should satisfy us in constructions of so 

 permanent a sort. 



It would be well, too, if those v/ho give 



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