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Jardim de São Pedro de Alcântara

José Eduardo Coelho

Coimbra 1835 - Lisboa 1889
Portuguese typographer, writer and journalist, founder of the daily newspaper Diário de Notícias (1864)
(Wikipedia)

António da Costa Motta (tio)
1904

Description

Bronze bust José Eduardo Coelho, with on the pedestal a portrait medallion of Thomás Quintino Antunes. In front of the pedestal is a statue of a paper boy, selling the Diário de Notícias.

Lisboa - José Eduardo Coelho
Portrait medaillon circumscribed thomaz quintino antunes 1820-1898

Tomás Quintino Antunes, 1.º conde de São Marçal (Lisboa 1820 - Lisboa 1898), Portuguese businessman and journalist, co-founder of the Diário de Notícias (Wikipedia).

Inscription(s)

A
EDUARDO COELHO
22-iv-1835
14-v-1889

fundador do
diario de noticias

benemerito da
imprensa popular

por subscripção publica
inaugurado 29-xii-1904

To
Eduardo Coelho
22 April 1835
14 May 1889

Founder of the
Diario de Noticias

Award from the
Popular Press

By public subscription
Inaugurated 29 December 1904

Sculptor

António Augusto da Costa Motta (tio) [uncle] (Coimbra 1862 - Lisboa 1930), Portuguese sculptor (for his eponymous nephew, see 'sobrinho') (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, Equipamentos.
Espaço e Tempo, revelar LX, Arte pública/Escultura.
Sílvia Lucas Vieira de Almeida, Forma e conceito na escultura de oitocentos, Ph.D. Thesis Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2012 (PDF on-line).

Locatie (N 38°42'53" - W 9°8'38") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: ptli002; Photograph: 6 July 1997 / updated: 28 August 2017
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