xml/lby.00132.xml Icons of Liberty: Model for Statue of Freedom

Thomas Crawford, Model for Statue of Freedom (1858)

Thomas Crawford, Model for Statue of Freedom (1858). Plaster. In storage, Capitol Building, Washington. Reproduced from Vivien Green Fryd, Art and Empire: The Politics of Ethnicity in the United States Capitol, 1815-1860, Yale University Press, 1992, 194. Crawford discards the traditional symbols of American Liberty in this statue in favor of an armed warrior iconography.