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Genève
Genève (Canton)

Jardin Anglais

Union de Genève à la Suisse

Union of Genève with Switzerland

Robert Dorer
Kunstgießerei Lauchhammer
1869

Description

Bronze statue of two allegorical figures representing Genève (with mural crown, shield of Genève and sword) and Helvetia (with crown of oak leaves) holding eachother entwined at the waist. They are both looking north towards Switzerland.

Inscription(s)

en Mémoire
de la reunion du Canton de genève
a la Confédération Suisse
LE PEUPLE GENEVOIS
a Elevé ce Monument

UNION
de genève a la suisse
votée par la diète helvétique
le XII septembre MDCCCXIV

COMBOURGEOISIE
de genève avec
FRIBOURG BERNE ZURICH
mdxix. mdxxvi. mdlxxxiv.

CE MONUMENT
a été inauguré
par le fęte nationale
DU XX septembre MDCCCLXIX

Signed: r. dorer fecit.
lauchhammer fudit 1869.

Sculptor

Robert Eugen Dorer (Baden 1830 - Baden 1893), Swiss sculptor (SIKART Lexikon).

Location (N 46°12'16" - E 6°9'1")

Item Code: chge030; Photograph: 5 June 2013
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