Angel of the Waters
The angel over the waters (in the original English Angel of the Waters ) by Emma Stebbins (1815-1882) was as a memorial to the construction of the aqueduct Croton Aqueduct in New York's Central Park built. The bronze statue stands above the upper shell of the Bethesda Fountain on the street that crosses the park at 72nd Street at the end of the mall, Terrace Drive. It has a height of about 2.6 meters. Stebbins began work on the statue in Rome in 1861 (at the start of the American Civil War ). The sculpture was completed in 1868 and inaugurated in 1873. The commission to do this as a woman was a novelty at the time. It is built over the Calvert Vaux basin .
description
In a wide dress that ends above the ankles, the figure steps forward with the left foot. The lily in her left hand represents the purity of the water and the four figures above the lower bowl, far above the large basin, represent peace, health, purity and temperance (Peace, Health, Purity, Temperance). She blesses with her right hand.
Emma Stebbins also created the bronze statue of the American educational reformer Horace Mann in Boston and the marble statue of Columbus in front of the Supreme Court of New York State in New York City.
Web links
- Angel of the Waters Fountain on the official website of the Central Park's (Engl.)
- The Bethesda Terrace and Fountain at CentralPark.com (Complete Guide to Central Park; Engl.)
- Bethesda Fountain at: On The Inside (engl.)
Coordinates: 40 ° 46 ′ 26 " N , 73 ° 58 ′ 16" W.