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Hope
From the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Hiram Powers sculpted this marble bust to personify Hope. A pious patron commissioned it, along with two others representing Faith and Charity, to embody the central virtues of Christianity.
Smithsonian American Art Museum’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineHope. modeled 1866. Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase in memory of Ralph Cross Johnson. CC0.
