William Shakespeare - Chicago, IL
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N 41° 55.430 W 087° 38.171
16T E 447249 N 4641515
William Ordway Partridge's statue of a seated William Shakespeare (1894) provides a lap for children to climb onto. Moved to Lincoln Park after being on display at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.
Waymark Code: WM7TQC
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 12/02/2009
Views: 5
From Smithsonian Art Inventory site:
ARTIST: Partridge, William Ordway, 1861-1930, sculptor.
DATE: 1893. Dedicated April 23, 1894.
MEDIUM: Sculpture: bronze; Base: granite.
"Inscription: Wm Ordway Partridge / E. Gruet Jne Fondeur/Paris (East side of base:) What a piece of work is man How noble/in reason How infinite in faculty/The Bequest of Samuel Johnston (West side of base:) He was not (of) an age but for all time/ Myriad-minded Shakespeare MDLXIV-MDCXV(I) signed Founder's mark appears.
Description: Seated portrait of Shakespear(e) wearing the costume from the period of King James I of England. His left hand rests on his left thigh and his right hand is resting on the back of the chair. He appears to have just set aside the book he has been reading.
Funds for this sculpture were provided in the will of Chicago financier Samuel Johnston who died in 1886."
Note - There is also a plaque embedded in the ground in front that reads:
William Shakespeare Monument
Adopted and endowed by
The Edelstein & Pritzker Foundations
Under the auspices of
Friends of Lincoln Park &
The Chicago Park District
October 1989
FYI Sculptor William Ordway Partridge was quite prolific and has 60+ entries in the Smithsonian database.
Also see other waymarks for this statue.
Located just east of the intersection of Lincoln Park West and Belden Ave in Lincoln Park - Chicago,IL.
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