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Horatio Grennough and the Form Majestic

Hardcover • 2020 • 1. edition

Horatio Grennough and the Form Majestic

By Harry (Harry Rand) Rand

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The nation's first federally-commissioned monument, Horatio Greenough's huge marble statue of George Washington, sits near the entrance of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Meant to be the symbolic focus of the whole continent--at the very center of the US Capitol--the monument instead seems a sadly curious relic. This book tells the tale of its demotion from stardom to obscurity: the story is stranger than fiction, including an attempted murder; fights in the USA, Britain, ...Show more

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9781944466299

Publisher

Smithsonian Books

Published year

2020

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1

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Horatio Grennough and the Form Majestic

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Hardcover

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