This sculpture is located in Boston Public Garden.
The Smithsonian Inventory (
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"Artist:
Kitson, Theo Alice Ruggles, 1871-1932, sculptor.
Gorham Manufacturing Company, founder.
Title:
Tadeusz Kosciuszko, (sculpture).
Dates:
Commissioned Sept. 28, 1922. Cast 1927. Dedicated Sept. 28, 1927...
Medium:
Sculpture: bronze; Base: granite.
Dimensions:
Sculpture: approx. 10 ft. x 32 in. x 27 in.; Base: approx. 6 ft. x 6 ft. x 5 ft. 7 in.
Inscription:
(On proper left side of bronze base:) Gorham Foundry (On proper right side of bronze base:) THEO A.R. KITSON Sc (On front of granite base, incised letters:) KOSCIUSZKO (On plaque, rear of granite base:) GENERAL TADEUSZ KOSCIUSZKO/CHAMPION OF LIBERTY AND THE RIGHTS/OF MAN, ERECTED BY THE POLISH PEOPLE/OF NEW ENGLAND TO COMMEMORATE/THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS ARRIVAL/IN AMERICA TO ENLIST IN THE CAUSE/OF LIBERTY signed Founder's mark appears.
Description:
A standing portrait of Tadeusz Kosciuszko holding his tricorn hat behind his back with his proper left hand and clutching a publication from West Point in front of him with his proper right hand. He is dressed in his military uniform and his coat is blown back by the wind, exposing a sword hanging on his proper left side. At his feet is a small pile of oak leave. The sculpture rests atop a square base surrounded by a low chain fence...
Owner:
Administered by City of Boston, Boston Art Commission, Office of Cultural Affairs, Boston City Hall, Room 716, Boston, Massachusetts 02201
Located Boston Public Garden, Boylston Street Mall, Boston, Massachusetts
Remarks:
The sculpture was commissioned by the Polish people of New England to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Kosciuszko's enlistment in the Continental Army. IAS files contain excerpts from: Allan Forbes and Ralph M. Eastman's "Other Statues of Boston," Boston, MA: State Street Trust Co., 1947, pg. 48-49; Walter Muir Whitehill's "Boston Statues," Barre, MA: Barre Publishers, 1970, pg. 116; and a Condition Survey of Boston Sculpture form dated Nov. 2, 1979."
and Wikipedia (
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"Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kosciuszko (Andrew Thaddeus Bonaventure Kosciuszko;[note 1] February 4 or 12, 1746 – October 15, 1817) was a Polish military engineer and a military leader who became a national hero in Poland, Belarus, and the United States. He fought in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth's struggles against Russia and Prussia, and on the American side in the American Revolutionary War. As Supreme Commander of the Polish National Armed Forces, he led the 1794 Kosciuszko Uprising.
Kosciuszko was born in February 1746 in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, in a village that is now in Belarus; his exact birthdate is unknown. At the age of 20, he graduated from the Corps of Cadets in Warsaw, Poland, but after the outbreak of a civil war involving the Bar Confederation in 1768, Kosciuszko moved to France in 1769 to pursue further studies. He returned to Poland in 1774, two years after its First Partition, and took a position as tutor in Józef Sylwester Sosnowski's household. After Kosciuszko attempted to elope with his employer's daughter and was severely beaten by the father's retainers, he returned to France. In 1776, Kosciuszko moved to North America, where he took part in the American Revolutionary War as a colonel in the Continental Army. An accomplished military architect, he designed and oversaw the construction of state-of-the-art fortifications, including those at West Point, New York. In 1783, in recognition of his services, the Continental Congress promoted him to brigadier general.
Returning to Poland in 1784, Kosciuszko was commissioned a major general in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Army in 1789. Two years after the Polish–Russian War of 1792 had resulted in the Second Partition of Poland, he organized an uprising against Russia in March 1794, serving as its Naczelnik (Chief). Russian forces captured him at the Battle of Maciejowice in October 1794. The defeat of the Kosciuszko Uprising that November led to the Third Partition in 1795, which ended Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth's independent existence for 123 years. In 1796, following the death of Tsaritsa Catherine the Great, Kosciuszko was pardoned by her successor Tsar Paul I and emigrated to the United States. A close friend of Thomas Jefferson, with whom he shared ideals of human rights, Kosciuszko wrote a will in 1798 dedicating his American assets to the education and freedom of U.S. slaves. He eventually returned to Europe and lived in Switzerland until his death in 1817. The execution of his will later proved difficult and the funds were never used for the purpose he had intended."