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The 1871 Samuel Morse Statue (2014)
photo by Alice Lum In 1825 portrait artist Samuel Finley Breese Morse was in Washington DC working on the portrait of Lafayette commi...
Realizing that the slow means of delivering messages was to blame for his not being aware of his wife’s sickness and death, the disconsolate artist focused on discovering a process of rapid long distance communication. Fabric awnings protect dignitaries from the sun as well-dressed attendees watch the unveiling -- Hearth and Home, July 1, 1871 (copyright expired) Governor John T. Hoffman presided and speeches were given by Mayor Abraham Oakley Hall and William Cullen Bryant, who presented the statue to the City. The difficulties of age have been successfully combated, and the sculptor, realizing the scope of his work, has brought out in the Professor’s face all the glowing majesty that has decked it in those moments when the situation called up his powers, and flashed his soul through the mask of his features.
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