November 6, 1886 – A simple note
in the “Of Interest to the Art World” section of the Chicago Daily Tribune announces, “The will of Mr. Samuel Johnston
contained an appropriation of $10,000 for a statue of Shakespeare to be erected
in Lincoln Park. The executors are John
DeKoven and Wiliam Elliot Furness.” Eight
years later the statue is unveiled in Lincoln Park after the sculptor, William
Ordway Partridge, travels to Stratford and London in an effort to come to some
reckoning with what the Bard may have actually looked like. The statue sits today in Grandmother’s Garden to the west of the Lincoln Park Zoo. For more information on the statue and its
benefactor, please head here.
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This is such a wonderful statue in a beautiful setting! Thanks for sharing !
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