View of the sculpture designed by renown sculptors Daniel Chester French and Edward Clark Potter for the Court of Honor lagoon at the Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago. The African American man teamster, attired in a sleeveless shirt, his muscular arms exposed, and pants cinched at the waist and ankles with rope, stands by the front leg of his draught horse. His legs slightly apart, his left hand behind his back, the laborer rests his right elbow on the shoulder of the yoked and harnessed animal. The statuary, the base marked "E.C. Potter" and "D.C. French, Sc.," stands before a drop cloth, probably within French's studio in Enfield, Massachusetts., Title supplied by cataloger., French, a renowned sculptor of several federal commissioned pieces including the Lincoln Memorial, collaborated with Potter, his former student and respected equestrian sculptor, on several sculpted works including the Court of Honor statuary at the Columbian Exposition and the statue of General Grant in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park., McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator
Arnold, C. D. (Charles Dudley), 1844-1927, photographer
Date
1892
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Arnold [5785.F.61b]
