Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1895 — HANCOCK IN BRONZE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HANCOCK IN BRONZE.

Model of an Equestrian Statue for the National Capital. A statue of General Hancock is to be erected in the autumn in Washington, and the model now stands in the studio of the sculptor, Mr. Ellicott Mr. Elllcott submitted, over a year ago, his model, in the sketch, to a committee, who at once accepted the work. The contract with the government was for the payment of $49,000, the sculptor to make the statue and pedestal and to pay the expense of casting in bronze. The pedestal will be of granite and stand about nineteen feet high. The height from the ground to the top of the rider's head is to be twenty-six feet and ten inches. The model, as it now stands, is about life-size and rests on a circular platform which revolves on wheels, so that it can be easily moved. The clay is a grayish hue, something like light metal itself, and to glance at it hastily one might imagine that the casting had already been done, The surface is

slightly roughened, but were it polished it would gleam like metal. Just as the model now stands, the finished statue will look when completed. Plaster will be put over the figure as it now is, and when hardened will be removed in sections and thus a mold of the whole will be had. This mold will be taken to the Gorham Manufacturing Company, at Providence, R. 1., where the castings will be made.

MODEL FOR THE HANCO CK STATUE.