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* 26 April 1826, describing the [[Bunker Hill Monument]], Boston, Mass. (quoted in Zukowsky 1976: 579) <ref>Zukowsky, John. 1976. “Monumental American Obelisks: Centennial Vistas.” ''Art Bulletin'' 58, no.4 (December): 574–581. [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/BFPET4DT/q/zukowsky view on Zotero]</ref>
 
* 26 April 1826, describing the [[Bunker Hill Monument]], Boston, Mass. (quoted in Zukowsky 1976: 579) <ref>Zukowsky, John. 1976. “Monumental American Obelisks: Centennial Vistas.” ''Art Bulletin'' 58, no.4 (December): 574–581. [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/BFPET4DT/q/zukowsky view on Zotero]</ref>
 
:“The [[obelisk]] I have always preferred for its severe cast and its nearer approach to the simplicity of nature than the others. The [[column]] might be more splendid. The character of the [[obelisk]], without a pedestal, seems to be strictly appropriate for the occasion and I think would rank first as a specimen of art and be highly creditable to the taste of the age.”
 
:“The [[obelisk]] I have always preferred for its severe cast and its nearer approach to the simplicity of nature than the others. The [[column]] might be more splendid. The character of the [[obelisk]], without a pedestal, seems to be strictly appropriate for the occasion and I think would rank first as a specimen of art and be highly creditable to the taste of the age.”
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==Images==
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Image:0697.jpg|[[Lewis Miller]], “[[Bunker Hill Monument]], Boston” [detail], n.d.
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Image:0868.jpg|[[Robert Mills]], The Bunker Hill Monument, obelisk design, n.d., in H.M. Pierce Gallagher, ''Robert Mills, Architect of the Washington Monument, 1781-1855'' (1935), opp. p. 104.
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Bunker Hill Monument


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“The obelisk I have always preferred for its severe cast and its nearer approach to the simplicity of nature than the others. The column might be more splendid. The character of the obelisk, without a pedestal, seems to be strictly appropriate for the occasion and I think would rank first as a specimen of art and be highly creditable to the taste of the age.”


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Notes

  1. Zukowsky, John. 1976. “Monumental American Obelisks: Centennial Vistas.” Art Bulletin 58, no.4 (December): 574–581. view on Zotero

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