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Quadriga: the Triumphal Progress of Columbia

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Artist:
Frederick William MacMonnies
Dedicated:1898
Location:Atop Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch
Description:Quadriga and three female figures (heroic scale)
Architect:Stanford White
Materials:Bronze
Dimensions:H: 25' W: 32' D: 16'; each trumpeter H: 11'
Foundry:LeBlanc Barbedienne
Donor:City of Brooklyn
Cast:ca. 1898

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