Object Details
- artist
- Ruckstull, Frederic Wellington 1853-1942
- photographer
- Bogart, A. B.
- On photo mount label: F. W. Ruckstull. Mercury amusing himself. St. Louis, Portland Place. Bogart. Erected in 1892. Classification number: 282/R912/475. Accession: 47495. Lantern slide: E53981. On second photo mount label, typed: "Mercury amusing himself." Portland Place, St. Louis, Mo. Bronze, 9 feet high. Illustrates a Roman story:- One day the priest of Apollo had left the Temple before the sacrifice was consumed, seeing which the eagle of Jupiter swooped down and began to devour the sacred victim; Mercury followed and teased him with his caduceus which the eagle resisted with great cries and blows of his wing.
- 1 photographic print : b&w, 10 1/8 x 6 1/2 in. (trimmed), mounted on 9 3/4 x 13 7/8 in. board.
- Image number
- SSC S0002126
- Type
- Photograph
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- Photograph Study Collection
- Metropolitan Museum of Art Study Collection of American Sculpture Photographs
- Title
- Mercury Amusing Himself, [sculpture] / (photographed by A. B. Bogart)
- Mercury Teasing an Eagle [sculpture] / (photographed by A. B. Bogart)
- Mercury Teasing the Eagle of Jupiter [sculpture] / (photographed by A. B. Bogart)
- Photograph Study Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Mythology--Classical--Mercury
- Animal--Bird--Eagle
- Record ID
- siris_jul_128842
