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A statue of William Shakespeare, sometimes called the William Shakespeare Monument, is installed in Chicago's Lincoln Park, in the U.S. state of Illinois. The work by William Ordway Partridge was created in 1893 and installed in 1894.
New York City's Central Park contains a statue of Shakespeare that was commissioned in 1864 as a celebration of the tricentenary of Shakespeare's birth in 1564. Funds were raised by a performance of Julius Caesar in which Edwin Booth took the lead role, with John Wilkes Booth playing Mark Antony. [12] The statue was designed by John Quincy ...
William Ordway Partridge (April 11, 1861 – May 22, 1930) was an American sculptor, teacher and author. Among his best-known works are the Shakespeare Monument in Chicago, the equestrian statue of General Grant in Brooklyn, the Pietà at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan, and the Pocahontas statue in Jamestown, Virginia.
The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that burned in the American city of Chicago during October 8–10, 1871. The fire killed approximately 300 people, destroyed roughly 3.3 square miles (9 km 2 ) of the city including over 17,000 structures, and left more than 100,000 residents homeless. [ 3 ]
Statue of Benjamin Franklin (Chicago) Statue of Christopher Columbus (Chicago) Statue of Irv Kupcinet; Statue of Leif Erikson (Chicago) Statue of Michael Jordan; Statue of Richard J. Oglesby; Statue of Robert Cavelier de La Salle; Statue of The Republic; Statue of William McKinley (Chicago) Statue of William Shakespeare (Chicago)
Statue of Benjamin Franklin (Chicago) Statue of Friedrich Schiller (Chicago) Statue of Irv Kupcinet; Statue of John Peter Altgeld; Statue of Leif Erikson (Chicago) Statue of Nathan Hale (Chicago) Statue of Richard J. Oglesby; Statue of Robert Cavelier de La Salle; Statue of William McKinley (Chicago) Statue of William Shakespeare (Chicago)
Shakespeare's funerary monument; Shakespeare's Globe; Statue of William Shakespeare (Chicago) Statue of William Shakespeare (New York City) Statue of William Shakespeare (Roubiliac) Statue of William Shakespeare, Leicester Square
The Statue of The Republic is a 24-foot-high (7.3 m) gilded bronze sculpture in Jackson Park, Chicago, Illinois by Daniel Chester French. It is based on a colossal original statue, which was a centerpiece of the Chicago World's Fair in 1893. That statue was made of temporary materials and was destroyed after the fair.