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Artist/Maker
Fitzgerald C. Peploe
(American, 1861 - 1906)
Date1903
MediumBronze
DimensionsOverall: 25 × 25 × 14 in. (63.5 × 63.5 × 35.6 cm)
Credit LineHamilton College Portrait Collection. Gift of friends of Charles H. Truax, Class of 1867
Object number19XX.8
Not on view
DescriptionThis bust is a rendering of a Hamilton alumnus, Charles H. Truax, who was born in Oneida County in 1846. After graduating from Hamilton College, he travelled to New York City and was admitted to the bar, allowing him to practice law in New York State. He eventually became a Justice of the New York Superior Court in 1880 and joined the United States Supreme Court for a single term as a trial justice in 1886. Fitzgerald Peploe, an English sculptor trained in Paris and Rome, created this portrait of Truax in New York City. Here, Peploe captured Truax in his judge’s robes with a suit coat and tie underneath. The sculpture was commissioned and donated to Hamilton College by a group of the sitter’s friends and was originally located in the College’s Memorial Hall and Art Gallery, which exhibited artworks on campus from 1873 until 1914. (SOURCE: Wellin Museum permanent collection label, Summer 2016)
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Additional Details
Provenance
By January 1904: Hamilton College (Clinton, NY), installed in the Memorial Hall and Art Gallery.
Published References
Ninety-third Year Hamilton College Annual Register of the Corporation, Officers and Students with Outline of Courses of Study and General Information for the Academic Year 1904-1904, 1904, p. 42.
The Hamilton Record, January 1904, vol. 3, no. 1, p. 8.
The Hamilton Record, January 1904, vol. 3, no. 1, p. 8.
Signature
Signed and dated in bronze, along side of sitter's left shoulder: Fitzgerald Peploe / 1903
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Date: c. 1931-1937
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 1969.7.7
Silvia Saunders
Date: 20th century
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 1969.12.4
Silvia Saunders
Date: 1933
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 1969.11.5
Unknown artist, Greek (Ancient)
Date: c. 350-325 BCE
Medium: Terracotta with slip and pigment
Object number: 1929.44
Unknown artist, Greek (Ancient)
Date: c. 350-320 BCE
Medium: Polychrome terracotta with slip and pigment
Object number: 1929.30
Karen Hampton
Date: 2015
Medium: Dye-sublimation print on polyester twill over archival inkjet print on silk organza, with hand-stitching
Object number: 2015.4
William C. Palmer
Date: 1938
Medium: Ink and graphite on paper
Object number: WCP.XXX.38
William C. Palmer
Date: 1953
Medium: Crayon and graphite on paper
Object number: WCP.XXX.32