Description
Statue on pedestal.
Inscription(s)
TO
CRISTOFORO COLOMBO
THE
ITALIANS
OF BALTIMORE
1892
Annotation
Christopher P. George wrote about this monument:
"According to Francis F. Beirne in his 1951 The Amiable Baltimoreans, for many years, our city's Italian community had an ambiguous relationship with de Paulmier's monument, apparently because a local legend held that the obelisk was not really a monument to the discoverer Christopher Columbus at all but was in honor of a horse of the same name! Whether the community's neglect of the monument stemmed from this reason, or simply that they preferred a lifelike representation of the explorer, a new Columbus statue was dedicated on October 12, 1892 in Druid Hill Park which became the focus of the annual celebration of Columbus."
This monument on postcards
Sculptor
- Achille Canessa (Genova 1856 - Genova 1905),
Italian sculptor.
Sources & Information
- Christopher P. George, Three Centuries of City Monuments Honor Columbus, no longer on-line.
- J.M. Dickey, Christopher Columbus and his Monument Columbia (1892), p. 78.
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, SIRIS (Smithsonian Institution Research Information system).
Tags
Locatie (N 39°19'9" - W 76°38'30") (Satellite view: Google Maps)
Item Code: usmd02; Photograph: 11 October 2000
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