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The statue, cast in 1880 and dedicated on May 25, 1881, is set on a Coopersburg, Pennsylvania black granite pedestal. [1] The work depicts Farragut, the noted United States Navy admiral of the Civil War, standing in naval uniform with binoculars and sword; the statue rests upon a plinth and then a pedestal, surrounded by a semicircular, winged exedra, which features a bas-relief figure of a ...
The Farragut statue is one of eighteen Civil War monuments in Washington, D.C., which were collectively listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 20, 1978, and the District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites on March 3, 1979. [2] It is one of the few Civil War monuments that is a not an equestrian sculpture.
A statue of him, named Admiral David G. Farragut, is in the center of Farragut Square. Two Washington Metro stations, Farragut West and Farragut North , also share his name. There is a statue of Admiral Farragut at the South Boston Marine Park adjacent to Castle Island .
The Admiral David G. Farragut statue in Farragut Square, dedicated in 1881. In the center of the square is a statue of David G. Farragut, a Union admiral in the American Civil War who rallied his fleet with the cry, "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" He was the "First Admiral in the Navy."
In November 1877, she produced a model for a Lee statue in Richmond. [34] After lobbying William Tecumseh Sherman and Mrs. Farragut, she won a competition to sculpt Admiral David G. Farragut. Her sculpture, located at Farragut Square, Washington, D.C. was dedicated on April 25, 1881. [35]
The Admiral David Glasgow Farragut Gravesite is the final resting place of David Glasgow Farragut (1801–1870), the first rear admiral, vice admiral, and four-star admiral of the United States Navy. He was most well known for his order to "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead." The granite and marble monument resembling a mast marks not only ...
This statue is causing quite a stink. A bronze memorial shaped like a poop has been dumped among the iconic monuments along the National Mall in Washington, DC — and officials can’t flush it ...
Abraham Lincoln: The Man in Lincoln Park, Chicago (1887). In 1876, Saint-Gaudens received his first major commission: a monument to Civil War Admiral David Farragut, in New York's Madison Square; his friend Stanford White designed an architectural setting for it, and when it was unveiled in 1881, its naturalism, its lack of bombast and its siting combined to make it a tremendous success, and ...