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Sculptured Monuments of Philadelphia, — 111. 
GEN. JOHN F. REYNOLDS. 
This equestrian statue, which backs on the 
northern side of the City Hall and faces the long 
CIX. JOHN F. KEVNOLDS.— JOHN ROGELS, SC. 
range of North Broad street, is an emanation from 
the hands of John Rogers, sculptor, New York, 
that versatile progenitor of parlor groups, historical 
and domestic subjects. What more needs be said? 
The character of his work is so broadly known that 
further comment on the man seems futile. Gen. J. 
F. Reynolds, it may be remembered, fell on the 
morning of the istday of July, i 864, as the advance 
was made by the union troops to intercept the flank 
of Gen. Lee’s columns. Advancing towards Mc- 
Pherson’s woods, at Gettysburg, Gen. Reynolds be- 
ing foremost in the van, recognized too late that the 
guns of the confederates were already planted and 
trained upon them; raising his hand as a signal for 
the advance of his troops, the enemy fired and Rey- 
nolds fell mortally wounded. The sculptor’s intent 
and purpose was to depict virtually this incident. 
Reynolds is in fatigue uniform, with field glasses 
slung over the shoulder, light sword and forage cap, 
reining in his horse, with the right hand raised at 
an angle of a few degrees above the shoulder’s level. 
*The writer acknowledges with thanks the courtesy of Mr. C. 
H. Howell, Secretary of the Fairmount Park Art Association, 
in furnishing some of the data relative to the work of the As- 
sociation. 
The portraiture is reasonably good, the figure 
of the man, however, is bad, since the waist line is 
too short, rendering the sword belt conspicuously 
high from the saddle seat, making the body alto- 
gether too short from the shoulder to the waist and 
a long seat in the saddle, an impossibility to a man 
reining in a horse. This was, I believe, John Rog- 
er’s first and last equestrian statue. 
The base of the pedestal, which is of Quincy 
granite, measures 14 by 9 feet, risingS feet 6 inches, 
the plinth being polished, rising from the ground 
2 feet by 6 inches, the rest being unpolished. 
Bearing on the face, “Reynolds, ” “Sept, 2 i , 1820,” 
“Sept. 18, 1884.” The statue was practically the 
gift of Mr. Joseph Temple, for many years associa- 
ted with the Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 
and a philanthropist. From a fund created during 
his life a medal and $25,000 was given. The pe- 
destal, costing $6,000, was subscribed and paid for 
through the medium of the G. A. R. men. The 
casting was made by the well known Bureau Bros. , 
Philadelphia. 
r.ARYE’S LION AND THE SERPENT. 
Barye, the inimitable, is here represented and 
in a charming position, facing the north of Ritten- 
housc Square, surrounded by the best of Philadel- 
phia’s houses, in a good, clean, congenial and ele- 
vating atmosphere, the well-known group challenges 
the young and old alike, stimulating the young 
and causing the old to regard with envious eyes, 
the half-subdued, but reserved strength of the lion, 
as he half shyly casts his head to the oneside, while 
still keeping his eyes upon the hissing and spitting 
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r.ARYE’S “LION AND THE SERPENT.” 
venom of the serpent. One can not regard the com- 
batants long without realizing that the lion’s heart 
would relent towards the half-subdued viper did it 
