Interpretation
This relief of James McCosh, Princeton University's eleventh president, is located in the north transept of the University Chapel. Created by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, the renowned sculptor of the Beaux-Art style, the original was severely damaged in the 1920 fire that destroyed the Chapel. This relief, a copy, was made from a cast made from the original.
Information
- Title
- James McCosh (1811-1894)
- Object Number
- PP36
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dates
- 1889
- Dimensions
- 252.7 x 141.6 cm (99 1/2 x 55 3/4 in.)
- Credit Line
- Princeton University, presented in 1929 by the Class of 1879 on its 50th reunion
- Culture
- American
- Signatures
- Signed: AUGUSTUS SAINT GAUDENS / FECIT
- Inscriptions
- On front: GORHAM CO. FOUNDERS; above: JAMES MCCOSH D.D. LL.D. FOR TWENTY YEARS PRESIDENT OF PRINCETON COLLEGE OCTOBER XVII MDCCCLXVIII. JVNE XX MDCCCLXXXVIII. ERECTED IN HIS HONOR BY THE CLASS OF MDCCCLXXIX. JVNEXVIII MDCCCLXXXIX.
- Materials
- Catalogue of a memorial exhibition of the works of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1908).
- Donald D. Egbert, Princeton Portraits, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1947)., fig. 36; p. 63-70
- Betsy Rosasco, "The teaching of art and the museum tradition: Joseph Henry to Allan Marquand," in "An art museum for Princeton: the early years", special issue, Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 55, no. 1/2 (1996): p. 7-52., p. 11; fig. 5
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