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A simple one
09-07-2012, 05:57 PM (This post was last modified: 09-07-2012 06:01 PM by Dave Taylor.)
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(09-07-2012 10:29 AM)Rob Wick Wrote:  Another easy one.

Who did this and why is it remembered?

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I don't know, but Maddie just posted a picture of an eerily similar statue located in Manchester in the "totally random" thread.

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09-07-2012, 06:07 PM
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They are "eerily" similar, Dave, because the same person was responsible for them.

I wondered if anyone would notice that. Smile

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09-07-2012, 06:17 PM
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RE: A simple one
(09-07-2012 06:07 PM)Rob Wick Wrote:  They are "eerily" similar, Dave, because the same person was responsible for them.

I wondered if anyone would notice that. Smile

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The statue is by George Gray Barnard and was the subject of a bitter controversy between Robert T Lincoln, the artist, and decisions over where to put the statue. It ended by in Manchester, UK after being rejected on RTL's pleadings from being erected near the Houses of Parliament in London--where a copy of the Lincoln Park St. Gaudens Lincoln now stands. Robert wrote of it: "...a onstrous figure which is grotesque as a likeness of President Lincoln and defamatory as an effigy." See Ch 23 of Jason Emerson's bio of DTL for details.
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09-07-2012, 08:14 PM
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Of course you are correct Joe. Interestingly, to me anyway, is that Tarbell liked it, and even defended it in a magazine article.

Your prize is a statue of yourself sculpted by Barnard. I'm not sure of his e-mail address. Big Grin

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