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Bust of Lucretia Mott by Adelaide Johnson, 1890s
Johnson, Adelaide, Mott, Lucretia Coffin
This marble bust of abolitionist and woman’s rights activist Lucretia Mott was sculpted by Adelaide Johnson, a feminist and artist known as the “sculptress of the Woman’s Rights Movement.” Johnson’s most famous work is the portrait monument to Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony that sits in the Capitol Rotunda. This bust is very similar to the one in the Capitol and may have been a study for the Capitol bust or the bust Johnson exhibited at the Court of Honor of the Woman's Building at the World's Columbian Exhibition in 1893, on which the Capitol bust was based. It has been dated to between 1890 and 1920.
- Title:
- Bust of Lucretia Mott by Adelaide Johnson, 1890s
- Creator:
- Johnson, Adelaide, Mott, Lucretia Coffin
- Description:
This marble bust of abolitionist and woman’s rights activist Lucretia Mott was sculpted by Adelaide Johnson, a feminist and artist known as the “sculptress of the Woman’s Rights Movement.” Johnson’s most famous work is the portrait monument to Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony that sits in the Capitol Rotunda. This bust is very similar to the one in the Capitol and may have been a study for the Capitol bust or the bust Johnson exhibited at the Court of Honor of the Woman's Building at the World's Columbian Exhibition in 1893, on which the Capitol bust was based. It has been dated to between 1890 and 1920.
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Item details
- Partner:
- Smithsonian Institution
- Contributing Institution:
- National Museum of American History
- Subjects:
- Women
Suffrage
Government
Social reformers
Politics
Civil rights
Mott, Lucretia Coffin
Johnson, Adelaide - Format:
- Marble (overall material)White (overall color)
- Rights:
- Elizabeth Johnson Cristal