Object Details
depicted (sitter)
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
artist
Johnson, Adelaide
maker
Johnson, Adelaide
Description
This marble bust of early woman’s rights leader and writer of the Declaration of Sentiments Elizabeth Cady Stanton 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.
Location
Currently not on view
Credit Line
Elizabeth Johnson Cristal
date made
1890-1920
ID Number
PL.241839.08
catalog number
241839.08
accession number
241839
Object Name
bust
Physical Description
marble (overall material)
Measurements
overall approximately: 21 in x 21 in x 14 in; 53.34 cm x 53.34 cm x 35.56 cm
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Political History: Political History, Womens History/Reform Movements Collection
Government, Politics, and Reform
Woman Suffrage
Data Source
National Museum of American History
general subject association
History, Women's Suffrage
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_529590