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Nathaniel Bowditch

Artist

Robert Ball Hughes (1806–1868)

Date

about 1839

Medium

Plaster

Dimensions

64 3/8 x 32 3/16 x 50 1/16 in. (163.5 x 81.8 x 127.2 cm)

Description
Photograph by Jerry L. Thompson for the Boston Athenæum.
Inscription

Inscribed on front of base: BOWDITCH. Inscribed on bronze plaque attached to proper right side of base: ORIGINAL MODEL BY / BALL HUGHES / FROM WHICH HE CAST / THE BRONZE STATUE / FOR MOUNT AUBURN / BOSTON 1847

Credit Line

Deposited by William Thaddeus Harris, 1851

Object Number

UH4