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  2. Statue of George Washington (Houdon) - Wikipedia

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    George Washington is a statue by the French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon from the late 18th century. Based on a life mask and other measurements of George Washington taken by Houdon, it is considered one of the most accurate depictions of the subject. The original sculpture is located in the rotunda of the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond ...

  3. List of monuments and memorials removed during the George ...

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    The vandalized statue of Robert Milligan outside the Museum of London Docklands before it was removed. The Albert Pike Memorial in Washington, D.C., after protesters toppled the statue of Pike. During the civil unrest [1] that followed the murder of George Floyd in May 2020, a number of monuments and memorials associated with racial injustice ...

  4. Statue of George Washington (Seattle) - Wikipedia

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    George Washington. Location. Seattle, Washington, United States. Coordinates. 47°39′22″N 122°18′40″W  /  47.656072°N 122.311131°W  / 47.656072; -122.311131. George Washington, also known as the President George Washington Monument, [1] is a bronze sculpture of George Washington by Lorado Taft, installed at the University of ...

  5. Tomb of the Unknown Revolutionary War Soldier - Wikipedia

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    The memorial was first conceived in 1954 by the Washington Square Planning Committee, and was completed in 1957. [1] The monument was designed by architect G. Edwin Brumbaugh and includes an eternal flame and a bronze cast of Jean Antoine Houdon's statue of George Washington as the monument's centerpiece. The tomb includes remains which were ...

  6. Virginia Washington Monument - Wikipedia

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    The Washington Monument features a 21-foot (6.4 m), 18,000-pound (8,200 kg) bronze statue of George Washington on horseback. Below Washington, (finished after the American Civil War) includes statues of six other noted Virginians who took part in the American Revolution: Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Andrew Lewis, John Marshall, George Mason, and Thomas Nelson Jr. [3] The lowest level has ...

  7. Washington Monument - Wikipedia

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    Print of the proposed Washington Monument by architect Robert Mills, c. 1845 –1848 Bronze statue of George Washington in the monument's western alcove. George Washington (1732–1799), hailed as the father of his country, and as the leader who was "first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen", as Maj. Gen. 'Light-Horse Harry' Lee eulogized at Washington's December ...

  8. Equestrian statue of George Washington (Washington Circle)

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    March 3, 1979 (American Revolution Statuary) April 24, 1997 (L'Enfant Plan) Lieutenant General George Washington is an 1860 equestrian statue of George Washington, at Washington Circle, at the edge of the George Washington University 's campus, in Washington, D.C. The statue was sculpted by Clark Mills, who also created the equestrian statue of ...

  9. Equestrian statue of George Washington (Boston) - Wikipedia

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    Description and history. The sculpture was commissioned in 1859, modeled in 1864, and cast and dedicated in 1869. The bronze measures approximately 22 x 6 x 15 ft, and rests on a granite base that measures approximately 16 x 8 x 15 ft. It was surveyed by the Smithsonian Institution 's "Save Outdoor Sculpture!" program in 1993.