Joseph Warren - Boston, MA - Smithsonian Art Inventory Sculptures on Waymarking.com

This marble 1857 sculpture is located inside the Bunker Hill Monument in Boston. It is about 7 feet high. The artist is Henry Dexter. It is set on a verd marble pedestal about 4 feet tall. It depicts Warren satnding, wearing high boots, cape over his coat. He holds a sword (or is that a cane?) with his right hand with the point on the ground...with his left hand across his chest seemingly making a gesture that he is referring to the sword while looking to the distance to his left.
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"Dr. Joseph Warren (June 11, 1741 – June 17, 1775) was an American doctor who played a leading role in American Patriot organizations in Boston in early days of the American Revolution, eventually serving as president of the revolutionary Massachusetts Provincial Congress. Warren enlisted Paul Revere and William Dawes on April 18, 1775, to leave Boston and spread the alarm that the British garrison in Boston was setting out to raid the town of Concord and arrest rebel leaders John Hancock and Samuel Adams. Warren participated in the next day's Battles of Lexington and Concord, which are commonly considered to be the opening engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
Warren had been commissioned a Major General in the colony's militia shortly before the June 17, 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill. Rather than exercising his rank, Warren served in the battle as a private soldier, and was killed in combat when British troops stormed the redoubt atop Breed's Hill. His death, immortalized in John Trumbull's painting, The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker's Hill, June 17, 1775, galvanized the rebel forces, and he has been memorialized in many place names in the United States."

TITLE: Joseph Warren ARTIST(S): Henry Dexter DATE: 1857 MEDIUM: Marble. CONTROL NUMBER: IAS 87740006 Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link] PHYSICAL LOCATION: inside the Bunker Hill Monument DIFFERENCES NOTED BETWEEN THE INVENTORY LISTING AND YOUR OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH: Inventory doesn't have a description.

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