Lafayette Statue Prospect Park

View all monuments in NYC Parks, as well as temporary public art installations on our NYC Public Art Map and Guide. Please note, the NAME field includes a primary designation as well as alternate namingsoften in common or popular usage. The Lafayette Memorial is a public memorial located in Brooklyn 's Prospect Park in New York City.

Summary Image represented is one of a related set (PARK 0288), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two images in different sizes. 0288 inscription: "Lafayette statue, Prospect Park near 9th Street, gift of Henry Harteau, 1819-1895, descendant of a French Huguenot family who left $30,000 for a statue of Lafayette. In 1781, Lafayette helped trap British General Charles Cornwallis army at Yorktown.

Dedicated in Prospect Park in May 1917, the monument consists of a bronze relief set into a pink granite stele. On Daniel Chester Frenchs Marquis de Lafayette. L ik e many monuments, Daniel Chester Frenchs relief sculpture in the 1917 memorial to the Marquis de Lafayette in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, passed largely unnoticed, even by historians, before attracting attention in recent years.

Among the most illustrious monuments conserved and maintained this summer was the elegant Lafayette Memorial, 1917, by the sculptor Daniel Chester French and architect Henry Bacon, in Prospect Park at the 9 th Street entrance. Lafayette Memorial Brooklyn is located in Brooklyn, United States specifically at 9th St, Prospect Park W, Brooklyn, NY 11215, United States. It is one of the defining landmarks of Brooklyn, easily reachable from most central areas and well served by local transport.

Conceptually similar Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Detail of Lafayette Statue. [Mayor's Committee to Welcome British & French War Commissions.] [Prospect Park, Brooklyn.] Prospect Park, Brooklyn.

Parks, Prospect Park, Brooklyn. The memorial, designed by sculptor Daniel Chester French and architect Henry Bacon, was dedicated in 1917 and consists of a bas-relief of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette alongside a groom and a horse. The Lafayette Memorial is a public memorial located in Brooklyn's Prospect Park in New York City.

The memorial, designed by sculptor Daniel...