Administered by State of Connecticut Office of Legislative Management Legislative Office Building, 210 Capitol Avenue Hartford Connecticut 06106
Located Connecticut State Capitol 210 Capitol Avenue Dome Hartford Connecticut 06106
Date:
Commissioned 1877. 1878. Installed 1879 (?)
Notes:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Connecticut survey, 1993.
National Park Service, American Monuments and Outdoor Sculpture Database, CT0040, 1989.
Monumental News, June 1894, pg. 281.
Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985.
Sharp, Lewis I., "John Quincy Adams Ward Dean of American Sculpture," Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1985, no. 58.
Summary:
One of two identical allegorical figures representing Agriculture, encircling the Capitol dome perimeter. The classically draped maiden holds an apple in her proper right hand, and cradles a sheaf of wheat in her proper left arm.
