Pedestal Design for the Seventh Regiment Memorial in Central Park

Relates to a statue by John Quincy Adams Ward American

ca. 1868

Not on view

This pedestal design relates to a memorial statue that stands in Central Park on West Drive near 69th Street. A bronze figure by John Quincy Adamds Ward honors Union soldiers from the Seventh New York Regiment killed in the Civil War. Mould was a British architect who moved to New York in 1852 and contributed many notable Central Park features such as the Belvedere Castle and decorative carvings on the Bethesda Terrace. His gothic conception for this pedestal was, however, not approved and eventually replaced with a more Roman conception by Richard Morris Hunt. Finished in 1869, the monument was not unveiled until 1874.

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Title: Pedestal Design for the Seventh Regiment Memorial in Central Park
Artist: Jacob Wrey Mould (American (born England), Chislehurst, Kent 1825–1886 New York)
Artist: Relates to a statue by John Quincy Adams Ward (American, Urbana, Ohio 1830–1910 New York)
Date: ca. 1868
Medium: Pen and ink, and watercolor
Dimensions: Sheet: 19 5/16 × 13 3/4 in. (49 × 34.9 cm)
Mount: 20 13/16 × 15 3/4 in. (52.8 × 40 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008
Object Number: 2018.839.118
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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