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Quadriga: the Triumphal Progress of Columbia

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

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