Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
April 1778
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 26v
Additional Source Text:
"Gilt on a Skie blue gound, this cast was from a chasing on Copper done by a genevois [resident of Geneva] nam'd Goau [i.e., Alexis Gouis] a wort[h]less fellow but what became of the original I know not."
Notes:
From I. N. Phelps Stokes, Iconography of Manhattan Island, vol. 5, p. 1064: "Du Simitière began to inquire what became of the fragments of the statue by asking Col. John Lamb by letter of Nov. 24, 1778. As shown in the summary under date of July 9, 1776 [sic], he was evidently in possession of the information by Feb. 22, 1779."
For the story of this statue of George III, see Arthur S. Marks, "The Statue of King George III in New York and the Iconology of Regicide," American Art Journal, Vol. 13, No. 3 (Summer, 1981): 61-68; and Wendy Bellion, Iconoclasm in New York: Revolution to Reenactment (University Park, Pa., 2019).
