Mary Dyer Statue - Satellite Oddity - Boston, Massachusetts, USA. - Satellite Imagery Oddities on Waymarking.com

Mary Barrett Dyer (c. 1611 — June 1, 1660) was a British Puritan turned Quaker who was hanged in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony (now in present-day Massachusetts), for repeatedly defying a Puritan law banning Quakers from the colony. She is one of the four executed Quakers known as the Boston martyrs.

The sculpture is by Sylvia Shaw Judson, placed in 1959.

From the Smithsonian Art Inventory website:
"Three-quarter length portrait of Mary Dyer. She is dressed in Quaker attire and wears a dress with long sleeves and large cuffs. On her head is a small, plain cap, with her hair tucked under it with only a few, parted bangs visible on her forehead. She is seated on a bench, with her hands in her lap. The sculpture is mounted upon a rectangular, incised base.

MARY DYER
QUAKER
WITNESS FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
HANGED ON BOSTON COMMON-1660

"My life not availeth me
in comparison to the
liberty of the truth"

Erected by the Art Commission of
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
from the legacy of Zena Ellis
of Fair Haven, Vermont

Dedicated 9 July 1959
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