Out-Door Monuments 



istic figure would be out of harmony with 

 the expression of the spot. 



For obvious reasons it is less easy to give 

 the right out-door look to a seated than to a 

 standing figure of the commemorative sort ; 

 but a seated figure looks better, I think, in 

 those portions of a park where living people 

 sit at rest, and the idea of repose is in 

 the air, than in a city's rushing streets. 

 Seward, poising his pen on the corner of 

 Madison Square, seems sadly out of place, 

 and many travellers must have noticed in 

 London the almost comically inappropriate 

 air of the sitting figure of George Peabody, 

 surrounded by the City's crowds and clamor. 

 Sometimes the architect might well be asked 

 to furnish, not merely a base for a seated 

 figure, but also some sort of a canopy or 

 roof to mitigate the impression that it ought 

 not to be out-of-doors. It would be inter- 

 esting to know just how the Greeks and 

 Romans dealt with this question of sitting 

 figures ; it seems as though they must have 

 preferred to place them under porches or 

 colonnades rather than boldly beneath the 

 sky. But in any case our climate is not the 



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