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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 2293898, member: 5833"]<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie44" alt=":eggface:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie44" alt=":eggface:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie86" alt=":sorry:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie86" alt=":sorry:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie79" alt=":shame:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie79" alt=":shame:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>No, I glanced at that same site & somehow managed to completely mangle it. It now becomes clear how the image spread to other media. There still must have been some kind of graphic version disseminated.</p><p><br /></p><p>They lost me a little with this:</p><p><br /></p><p>With the assistance of the German government, a new plaster cast was made from the original bronze and exhibited in Memorial Hall until 1909. The decision to commission only American art prompted the Association to present the<i> Amazon</i> as a gift to Harvard’s Germanic Museum. However, once construction began on the new building for the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Association arranged to cast another copy so that it could sit across from <i>The Lion Fighter</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Did they give Harvard a bronze or the plaster? The Lion Fighter is also by a German sculptor. Why not donate it to the Germanic Museum? Discussions at those meetings must have been something.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 2293898, member: 5833"]:eggface::eggface::sorry::sorry::shame::shame: No, I glanced at that same site & somehow managed to completely mangle it. It now becomes clear how the image spread to other media. There still must have been some kind of graphic version disseminated. They lost me a little with this: With the assistance of the German government, a new plaster cast was made from the original bronze and exhibited in Memorial Hall until 1909. The decision to commission only American art prompted the Association to present the[I] Amazon[/I] as a gift to Harvard’s Germanic Museum. However, once construction began on the new building for the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Association arranged to cast another copy so that it could sit across from [I]The Lion Fighter[/I]. Did they give Harvard a bronze or the plaster? The Lion Fighter is also by a German sculptor. Why not donate it to the Germanic Museum? Discussions at those meetings must have been something.[/QUOTE]
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