Statue of Alexander Hamilton | |
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Artist | William Rimmer |
Medium | Granite sculpture |
Subject | Alexander Hamilton |
Location | Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
42°21′12.4″N 71°4′20.8″W / 42.353444°N 71.072444°W |
A statue of Alexander Hamilton by William Rimmer is installed along Commonwealth Avenue, between Arlington and Berkeley Streets, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
The 1864–1865 granite statue measures approximately 10 ft. x 3 ft. 4 in. x 3 ft. 4 in., and rests on a granite base measuring 8 ft. 5 in. x 5 ft. 4 in. x 5 ft. 4 in. The base has three relief portrait busts depicting Hamilton, John Jay, and George Washington.
The artwork was surveyed by the Smithsonian Institution's " Save Outdoor Sculpture!" program in 1993. [1]
The statue was widely regarded as a failure by nineteenth-century commentators. The critic George B. Woods stated that Hamilton appeared to be "swathed like an infant or a mummy." [2] William H. Downes wrote that it "suggested a snow image which had partly melted." [2] Lincoln Kirstein, writing in 1961, offered a more favorable assessment, commenting that "the mass and its drapery are powerfully suggestive, anticipating Rodin's Balzac in the looming treatment of the rising form." [2]