Pedestal Design for the Seventh Regiment Memorial in Central Park
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
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008
Accession Number
2018.839.118
About the Artist
John Quincy Adams Ward|Jacob Wrey Mould · 1830–1910
John Quincy Adams Ward (1830–1910) was born in Urbana, Ohio, the fourth of eight children, and displayed an early aptitude for three-dimensional form, modeling figures in clay from childhood. In 1849 he moved to Brooklyn, New York, to apprentice under the sculptor Henry Kirke Brown, with whom he worked for seven years. Brown's emphasis on American subjects and his conviction that sculpture should ...