Saturday, January 13, 2007

 

A Nineteenth Century Representation of America's Fighting Spirit

This is one of the six nearly identical allegorical bronze figures, a martial lady in Greek dress, sculpted by Randolph Rogers around 1860, which surround the exquisite equestrian statue of George Washington north east of the Capitol Building in Richmond, Virginia. She is seated on cannon and cannon ball, with a sword in one hand, backed by flags, spears, axes, a drum, armor, helmet, shields and more swords. She has an unrolling scroll in her other hand.


In your wildest dream, could you imagine such a bellicose public decoration being commissioned at this time? More evidence, if we needed it, of how wimpy most of us have become.

# posted by Roger Fraley @ 3:40 PM
Comments:
I guess the human progress is happening despite...
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 1:47 AM
 
A lot of people saw the Oxford refusal to fight for King and country in the 30s as progress too. Were they right?
# posted by Blogger Roger Fraley : 8:06 AM
 
She's for me. I'd take her over Hilary or Nancy any day.
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 5:05 PM
 
Yeah, and a nice rack of cannonballs too.
# posted by Blogger Roger Fraley : 5:19 PM
 
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