Invention Vase, (sculpture)
Object Details
- sculptor
- Stone, Horatio 1808-1875
- founder
- Robert Wood & Company
- Subject
- Franklin, Benjamin
- Fulton, Robert
- Morse, Samuel Finley Breese
- Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985.
- Van Ness, Jon & Linda, 2008.
- Image on file.
- The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
- Summary
- One a pair of vases, from a set of three vases commissioned by Congress to symbolize the Nation's stability following the Civil War. The relief figures encircling the vase titled "Invention" represent the growth of invention in the Western World. The figures depicting around the sides of the vase are: Freedom as a youth receiving the lamp of knowledge from Minerva, Benjamin Franklin with his key symbolizing electricity, Robert Fulton with his designs for the steamboat, and Samuel Morse with his telegraph.
- Commissioned 1870
- Control number
- IAS 76007958
- Type
- Sculptures
- Medium
- Bronze
- Title
- Federal Vase: Invention, (sculpture)
- Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
- Topic
- Mythology--Classical--Minerva
- Portrait male
- Portrait male--Knee length
- Occupation--Science--Inventor
- Record ID
- siris_ari_18735
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Usage conditions apply
