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Columbus Gorham Silver Company Statue

Statue (no longer existing?)

Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi
1893

Chicago / Columbus Gorham Silver Company Statue

Description

Life size, silver statue, commissioned by Gorham, a silver manufacturing company (Rhode Island, USA) for display in their exhibit in the Manufactures Building at the Columbian Exposition of 1893. It used 30,000 ounces of silver, the largest silver casting in the world at that time.

Annotation

A copy, cast in bronze is in Providence, Rhode Island.

Sculptor

Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (Colmar 1834 - 1904), French sculptor who is remembered mainly for designing the Statue of Liberty (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Information from Alan Gornik, Western Springs, IL.
Spencer Marks Ltd.,Gorham Silver Company.
World's Columbian Expositon of 1893, Silver Statue of Columbus.

Exact Location Unknown

Item Code: usil12; Added: 25 September 2010

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