19TH-CENTURY CAST IRON SCULPTURE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON

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19TH-CENTURY CAST IRON SCULPTURE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON

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19TH-CENTURY CAST IRON SCULPTURE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON

NINETEENTH-CENTURY CAST IRON SCULPTURE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON. Cast iron (hollow construction) sculpture, 20 1/2" tall, 7" wide (maximum), 5 1/2" deep (maximum). Washington is dressed in an ankle-length toga draped over his left shoulder, a shirt with ruffled collar, a jacket open at the front. He is standing on a circular (6 1/2" diameter) iron base (5/8" high), to which either foot is secured (from the underside of the base) with a bolt and nut. He holds a sword in his right hand and a scroll in his left. The iron is covered with a thin, dull-green paint, which we believe to be original and which gives the sculpture a bronze-like appeal. The subject's upper right (jacketed) arm is missing a quantity of this green covering, the affected area measuring approximately four inches by (maximum) one inch; a half-inch square area of the subject's upper back, as well as two areas (respectively, one-inch square and one-half inch square) at the base of his back are missing the green paint covering; a few other small (upwards to one-quarter inch square) areas on the sculpture are missing the green paint. There is a 5/8" long by (maximum) 2mm. wide crack in the iron in the subject's upper right arm; there is a a 1/8" x (maximum) 1mm. crack at the base of one of the deep folds of the toga where it rests against the subject's back; there are two small (respectively,1mm. diameter and 3mm. by 1mm.) pitted areas at the base of deep folds of the toga where it rests against the subject's back; there is a 1/2" x 1mm. vertical crack in the sculpture's base (near the toe of the subject's left shoe), the crack nearly the height of the base and visible when the sculpture is viewed frontally. Unsigned; undated, but in all probability from the second half of the nineteenth century. The sculpture stands readily on its base, and weighs approximately 14 pounds.