Sculpture: bronze; Base: red Scottish granite and gray granite
Type:
Sculptures-Outdoor Sculpture
Sculptures-Gravestone
Sculptures
Owner/Location:
Cedar Hill Cemetery Association Cedar Hill Cemetery 451 Fairfield Avenue Hartford Connecticut 06114
Date:
Ca. 1864-1867. Installed ca. late 1860s
Notes:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Connecticut survey, 1993.
Image on file.
(On base, front, left:) J. G. BATTERSON 1867 (Incised on base of figure, left:) RANDOLPH ROGERS/INV ET/MO(?)/ROME MDCCCXIV (On base of figure, right:) FERD MULLER MDTF(?)/MUNCHEN 1865 (Incised on base of pedestal, front:) FOR THE TRUMPETS SHALL SOUND AND THE DEAD SHALL BE RAISED (On front:) SAMUEL COLT/BORN IN HARTFORD, 19 JULY 1814/DIED 10 JANUARY, 1862/A DEVOTED HUSBAND, A TENDER FATHER/A STEADFAST AND GENEROUS FRIEND,/HIS FAME AS AN INVENTOR WAS WIDESPREAD/AT HOME AND ABROAD/SAGACIOUS IN PLANNING. ENERGETIC IN/EXECUTING GREAT ENTERPRISES, HE WON HONOR/FOR HIMSELF AND CONTRIBUTED LARGELY TO/THE PROSPERITY OF HIS FELLOW CITIZENS,/AND OF HIS NATIVE CITY, WHICH HE LOVED./HIS WIFE IN GRATEFUL AFFECTION DEDICATES/THIS MONUMENT TO HIS MEMORY (The names and life dates of the five Colt children appear on the right face)
(On right:) IT IS NOT THE WILL OF YOU FATHER WHICH IS IN/HEAVEN THAT ONE OF THESE LITTLE ONES SHOULD PERISH/GOD WILL GIVE YOU TO ME AGAIN WITH JOY AND GLADNESS FOREVER (On rear:) "BE YE STEADFAST UNMOVABLE ALWAYS/ABOUNDING IN THE WORK OF THE LORD FOR-/AS MUCH AS YE KNOW THAT YOUR LABOR IS/NOT IN VAIN IN THE LORD" (On left:) ELIZABETH HART/JARVIS/WIFE OF/SAMUEL COLT,/BORN 5 OCTOBER, 1826/DIED 23 AUGUST, 1905/IN HER MEEKNESS THE HEAVENLY FATHER/GUIDED HER IN JUDGEMENT, AND IN HER GENTLE-/NESS SHE TAUGHT HER HIS WAY. HAVING PATIENT-/LY FINISHED HER COURSE, SHE FELL ASLEEP IN/THE FAITH AND FEAR O GOD signed Founder's mark appears.
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Summary:
Full-length allegorical female figure of the Angel of the Last Judgement stands atop a tall column, a square pedestal and a tiered base. There are columns on each corner of the pedestal which support the larger column. The figure wears heavy drapery. Her bare proper right arm is bent and she holds a long trumpet in her proper right hand. A relief of the Colt crest is affixed above the cornice.
