in the main be overlooked because of regard for the man whose career the statue recalls — a thorough soldier, knowing as well how to obey as to command, whose untimely death on the field at Gettysburg, probably prevented the acquisition of a still greater fame.
The statue wa3 erected under the charge of the Reynolds Memorial Association, whose members were drawn from the various
Gen. George B. McClellan, Philadelphia, Pa.H. J. Ellicott, Sculptor.
military bodies with which Reynolds.had served at one time or another. The actual cost of the monument is not mentioned in the account of the unveiling of the statue which took place September 18, 1884, but it is known that the State of Pennsylvania voted $5,000 for the pedestal and that of sixty subscribers — single individuals and collective army posts — one, Mr. Joseph E. Temple, subscribed $25,000, so it is probable that the total cost was not far from the average cost of such monuments in this country, that is, about $40,000.
To another leader at the Battle of Gettysburg, General Meade, Philadelphia has also set up an equestrian statue, and though the city is certainly to be felicitated on having men so worthy of such commemoration as are Meade and Reynolds, congratulations of equal warmth can hardly be extended to her because of the successful character of their statues. Calder, to whom the modelling of Meade’s statue was entrusted, had for years been employed in modelling the multitudinous and multifarious bits of sculpture that have
added in no small ratio to the outrageous cost of Philadelphia’s new city-hall, and work of this kind can hardly be held the best sort of preparation for equestrian sculpture. The value of quietude, which has often been insisted on, has by this sculptor been turned almost to burlesque, so uneasy and restless is his rendering of a state of stillness. It is not a matter for regret that the Meade is not placed beside the Reynolds, but in Fairmount Park, where on a pedestal about thirty feet high designed by the sculptor himself, it was unveiled Oct. 18*, 1887, having cost about $30,000.
An equestrian statuette of Meade was also made by Baillv, probably at the time when it was a matter of doubt to whom should the commission actually be awarded.
Sherman, who during his life-time rather set his face against such vanities, is as jet unrepresented by an equestrian statue, but at the meeting of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, held at Chicago, October 7, 1891, it was voted to erect at some still-to-be determined place a statue of the hero of the march to the sea, and,
though the vote did not particularize a mounted figure, the probabilities are that the outcome will be an equestrian statue at Washington. Besides this, St. Gaudens is actually modelling an equestrian Sherman for New York, for which $60,000 have already been subscribed, while subscription-lists have been opened in St. Louis with a view to raising $25,000 by subscription to add to a sum of the same size appropriated by the city for an equestrian statue, and even Lancaster, O., Sherman’s native town, has considered the possibility of possessing such an image of her noted son and Kelly has made an equestrian statuette.
After serving during the
Mexican War, Burnside retired to private life* so that when he went to the front in ’61 people forgot that he was a trained soldier, and rather marvelled to note the manner in which he was promoted to important commands. Perhaps, if it had not been for this break in his military career his character would have gained crispness, and his strategical perceptions might, through constant occupation with concrete problems, have gained such strength that when he commanded the Army of the Potomac he might have accomplished that forward movement that had to wait for a more determined spirit than his to bring about. Still there was nothing in Burnside’s career as a soldier any more than in his life as a private citizen, or his public career as Governor and Senator, which was not highly creditable. He was a good sample of the most valuable type of American citizen, an able, wholesome man, and it is to the memory of the man as such, quite as much as in commemoration of a gallant soldier that there has been placed in Exchange Place, Providence, R. I., a large equestrian statue bjr Launt Thompson. Considering the character of this sculptor’s previous work, this, his only piece of equestrian sculpture, is surprisingly good. It is sober, dignified, well-composed and, though the modelling is commonplace and hardly bears examination,
Gen. J. F. Reynolds, Philadelphia, Pa. J.
Rogers, Sculptor.
Gen. G. G. Meade, Philadelphia, Pa. A. M. Calder, Sculptor.
the whole monument is deserving of a much better site than has been accorded it, for it is pushed aside to one end of an irregular-shaped square near the railroad station, where it is hemmed about by cars, carriages and wagons; but the squalor and bustle of its surroundings
Gen. G. B. McClellan, a Statuette. Bailly, Sculptor.
The statue wa3 erected under the charge of the Reynolds Memorial Association, whose members were drawn from the various
Gen. George B. McClellan, Philadelphia, Pa.H. J. Ellicott, Sculptor.
military bodies with which Reynolds.had served at one time or another. The actual cost of the monument is not mentioned in the account of the unveiling of the statue which took place September 18, 1884, but it is known that the State of Pennsylvania voted $5,000 for the pedestal and that of sixty subscribers — single individuals and collective army posts — one, Mr. Joseph E. Temple, subscribed $25,000, so it is probable that the total cost was not far from the average cost of such monuments in this country, that is, about $40,000.
To another leader at the Battle of Gettysburg, General Meade, Philadelphia has also set up an equestrian statue, and though the city is certainly to be felicitated on having men so worthy of such commemoration as are Meade and Reynolds, congratulations of equal warmth can hardly be extended to her because of the successful character of their statues. Calder, to whom the modelling of Meade’s statue was entrusted, had for years been employed in modelling the multitudinous and multifarious bits of sculpture that have
added in no small ratio to the outrageous cost of Philadelphia’s new city-hall, and work of this kind can hardly be held the best sort of preparation for equestrian sculpture. The value of quietude, which has often been insisted on, has by this sculptor been turned almost to burlesque, so uneasy and restless is his rendering of a state of stillness. It is not a matter for regret that the Meade is not placed beside the Reynolds, but in Fairmount Park, where on a pedestal about thirty feet high designed by the sculptor himself, it was unveiled Oct. 18*, 1887, having cost about $30,000.
An equestrian statuette of Meade was also made by Baillv, probably at the time when it was a matter of doubt to whom should the commission actually be awarded.
Sherman, who during his life-time rather set his face against such vanities, is as jet unrepresented by an equestrian statue, but at the meeting of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, held at Chicago, October 7, 1891, it was voted to erect at some still-to-be determined place a statue of the hero of the march to the sea, and,
though the vote did not particularize a mounted figure, the probabilities are that the outcome will be an equestrian statue at Washington. Besides this, St. Gaudens is actually modelling an equestrian Sherman for New York, for which $60,000 have already been subscribed, while subscription-lists have been opened in St. Louis with a view to raising $25,000 by subscription to add to a sum of the same size appropriated by the city for an equestrian statue, and even Lancaster, O., Sherman’s native town, has considered the possibility of possessing such an image of her noted son and Kelly has made an equestrian statuette.
After serving during the
Mexican War, Burnside retired to private life* so that when he went to the front in ’61 people forgot that he was a trained soldier, and rather marvelled to note the manner in which he was promoted to important commands. Perhaps, if it had not been for this break in his military career his character would have gained crispness, and his strategical perceptions might, through constant occupation with concrete problems, have gained such strength that when he commanded the Army of the Potomac he might have accomplished that forward movement that had to wait for a more determined spirit than his to bring about. Still there was nothing in Burnside’s career as a soldier any more than in his life as a private citizen, or his public career as Governor and Senator, which was not highly creditable. He was a good sample of the most valuable type of American citizen, an able, wholesome man, and it is to the memory of the man as such, quite as much as in commemoration of a gallant soldier that there has been placed in Exchange Place, Providence, R. I., a large equestrian statue bjr Launt Thompson. Considering the character of this sculptor’s previous work, this, his only piece of equestrian sculpture, is surprisingly good. It is sober, dignified, well-composed and, though the modelling is commonplace and hardly bears examination,
Gen. J. F. Reynolds, Philadelphia, Pa. J.
Rogers, Sculptor.
Gen. G. G. Meade, Philadelphia, Pa. A. M. Calder, Sculptor.
the whole monument is deserving of a much better site than has been accorded it, for it is pushed aside to one end of an irregular-shaped square near the railroad station, where it is hemmed about by cars, carriages and wagons; but the squalor and bustle of its surroundings
Gen. G. B. McClellan, a Statuette. Bailly, Sculptor.