Exhibited at the Horticultural Hall, Boston, 1849

Exhibited at the Horticultural Hall, Boston, 1849

The Greek Slave returned to the Horticultural Hall in Boston in the summer of 1849, and this time was shown as part of an expanded display that included three other sculptures by Powers: Fisher Boy, Proserpine, and General Jackson. Richard P. Wunder gives the exhibition dates as July 10 to September 12, 1849.[1]



[1] Richard P. Wunder, Hiram Powers: Vermont Sculptor, 1805–1873 (Newark: University of Delaware Press), 2:164.

 

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