JOHN QUINCY ADAMS WARD 1800s Antique Engraving WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Framed COA
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JOHN QUINCY ADAMS WARD 1800s Antique Engraving WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Framed COA:
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Artist: John Quincy Adams Ward (American, 1830 – 1910)
Title: Shakespeare
Condition: Excellent
Dimensions: Image Size 4 5/8 x 9 inches.
Framed dimensions:Approximately 14 x 18 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
Additional notes:
This is not a modern print. This impression is more than 135 years old. The strike is crisp and the lines are sharp. The original Bronze Statue of William Shakespeare in on Literary Walk in New York City\'s Central Park.
Additional notes:
In 1870 Ward produced a small study of William Shakespeare (1564-1616) that was approved by the City of New York for a heroic statue to be installed in Central Park. The over-lifesize finished sculpture, celebrating the 300th anniversary of the poet\'s birth, was unveiled on May 23, 1872, eight years after the monument’s cornerstone was laid. Although there are small differences between the monumental bronze and subsequent statuettes, all depict a robust Shakespeare standing in a modified contrapposto pose. Ward took great pains to ensure accuracy, relying primarily on well-known precedents in sculpture and prints. The popular actor James Morrison Steele Mackay posted for Ward on several occasions. The “Shakespeare” statuette was one of three bronzes by Ward that the Metropolitan purchased from his widow in 1917.
Artist Biography:
John Quincy Adams Ward was an American sculptor, who may be most familiar for his larger than lifesize standing statue of George Washington on the steps of Federal Hall National Memorial in New York. He was born in Urbana, Ohio, a city founded by his grandfather Colonel William Ward. He lived with his sister in Brooklyn, New York, where he trained under the well-established sculptor Henry Kirke Brown, who carved \"J.Q.A. Ward, asst.\" on his equestrian monument of George Washington in Union Square. His younger brother was the artist Edgar Melville Ward. Ward went to Washington in 1857, where he made a name for himself with portrait busts of men in public life. In 1861 he worked for the Ames Manufacturing Company of Chicopee, Massachusetts, providing models for decorative objects including gilt-bronze sword hilts for the Union Army. Ames was one of the largest brass, bronze and iron foundries in the United States. Ward set up a studio in New York City in 1861 and was elected to the National Academy of Design the following year; he was their president till 1874. In 1882 a new New York studio on 52nd Street was designed for him by his friend Richard Morris Hunt, who was to collaborate with him on many projects over the years. Ward was married three times. Nineteenth-century American commissions for sculpture were largely confined to portrait busts and monuments, where Ward was preeminent in his generation. Sculptors also made a living selling bronze reductions of their public works; Ward made use of new galvanoplastic duplicating techniques; many of Ward\'s reductions and galvanoplastic and die-stamped relief panels survive. In 1903, with the collaboration of Paul Wayland Bartlett, he made the models for the marble pediment sculptures for the New York Stock Exchange. The pediment was carved by the Piccirilli Brothers. Ward was a founder and president of the National Sculpture Society (1893–1904) and president of the National Academy of Design (1874). He was one of the first trustees in 1897 for the American Academy in Rome. He died at his home in New York City in 1910. A copy of his Indian Hunter stands at his gravesite in Urbana, and his Urbana home is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. His sketchbooks are conserved at the Albany Institute of History & Art.
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JOHN QUINCY ADAMS WARD 1800s Antique Engraving WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Framed COA:
$254.00