Exhibited at the Odeon, Washington, DC, 1848

“Amusements on Hand,” New York Herald, January 31, 1848, 4.“Amusements on Hand,” New York Herald, January 31, 1848, 4.

Advertisement, Baltimore Sun, February 15, 1848, 4.Advertisement, Baltimore Sun, February 15, 1848, 4.

Following its presentation in New York, The Greek Slave traveled to Washington, DC, where it was shown at the Odeon, a four-hundred-seat venue at Pennsylvania Avenue and 4 ½ Street. The exhibition was open from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.; admission was 25 cents, season tickets cost $1, and a pamphlet was available for 12 ½ cents.[1] Richard P. Wunder gives the exhibition dates as January 25 to March 25, 1848.[2]

^{[1] Advertisement, Baltimore Sun, February 15, 1848, 4.}

^{[2] Richard P. Wunder, Hiram Powers: Vermont Sculptor, 1805–1873 (Newark: University of Delaware Press), 2:161.}

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