Signing the Mayflower Compact - Provincetown, MA
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This rectangular bronze relief depicting Signing the Mayflower Compact is located in a small park on Bradford St in Provincetown, MA.
Waymark Code: WMMN0A
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 10/12/2014
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This rectangular bronze relief depicting passengers of the Mayflower and is installed in a large granite wall with stone benches running along each side. A man and a woman sit at a table. The woman wears thin ankle-length skirt, a blouse with a high lace collar and a bonnet. Her right hand rest on the shoulder of young boys standing her side. The man wears knee-length pants, knee-length socks and a cape. He is bareheaded. He holds a quill in his right hand and his signing a document that is laid on the table. Other men, women and children stand behind the table observing the signing of the Mayflower compact, each is stressed in a similar manner.
TITLE: Signing the Mayflower Compact
ARTIST(S): Dallin, Cyrus Edwin 1861-1944
DATE: 1921
MEDIUM: Relief: bronze; Base: granite
CONTROL NUMBER: IAS MA000780
Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link]
PHYSICAL LOCATION:
In a small park at the intersection of Bradford St and Ryder St in Provincetown, MA.
DIFFERENCES NOTED BETWEEN THE INVENTORY LISTING AND YOUR OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH:
None noted.
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