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Henry Ward Beecher

Founder Cast by Gorham Manufacturing Company American
1891; cast after 1910
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 774
This statuette of Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887) was cast after the preliminary working model for the principal figure of Ward’s monumental sculpture honoring the prominent author, orator, and minister of Brooklyn’s Plymouth (Congregational) Church. Unveiled in 1891 in Borough Hall Park in Brooklyn, the sculpture was relocated in 1959 to its present site in Cadman Plaza.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Henry Ward Beecher
  • Artist: John Quincy Adams Ward (American, Urbana, Ohio 1830–1910 New York)
  • Founder: Cast by Gorham Manufacturing Company (American, Providence, Rhode Island, 1831–present)
  • Date: 1891; cast after 1910
  • Culture: American
  • Medium: Bronze
  • Dimensions: 14 1/2 x 9 x 5 1/2 in. (36.8 x 22.9 x 14 cm)
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1917
  • Object Number: 17.90.4
  • Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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