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TitleZenobia in Chains

Creator nameHosmer, Harriet Goodhue

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator roleSculptor

Creation date1859

Object typeSculpture

MaterialsMarble

Dimensions82 in. (208.3 cm)

LocationHuntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California

https://huntington.emuseum.com/objects/48658/zenobia-in-chains?ctx=7f14c917115b5275626aff2f69cf23e12846049f&idx=0

Accession number2007.26

SubjectsLarge-scale sculptureSculpture, NeoclassicalMarble sculpture, American--19th centuryWomen sculptors

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3. The Civil War and Its Aftermath, 1850–1870

John Davis, Michael Leja

Art of the United States, 1750–2000: Primary Sources

The decade of the 1850s was, for many, a period of a satisfying coming of age. The Industrial Revolution, which had developed in the United States a bit later than in England, had matured, and the nation was on its way to being a global economic presence (despite a financial depression in 1857). The Gadsden Purchase in 1853 transferred Mexican land (this time without going to war) to the US...

Author

John Davis, Michael Leja

PublisherTerra Foundation for American Art

Related print edition pages: pp.108-155

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00199.004

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-20028&redirecttoanchor=48793

Chapter subject tags:Artists' writingsUnited States--History--Civil War, 1861–1865Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865–1877)Slavery--United StatesGenre painting, American

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