Bust of Susan B. Anthony by Adelaide Johnson, 1890s
date: label: date made
content: 1886-1930
name: label: artist
content: Johnson, Adelaide
label: depicted (sitter)
content: Anthony, Susan B.
label: maker
content: Johnson, Adelaide
notes: label: Description
content: This marble bust of civil rights activist and woman’s suffrage movement leader Susan B. Anthony was sculpted by Adelaide Johnson, a feminist and artist known as the "sculptress of the Woman’s Rights Movement." Johnson’s most famous work is the portrait monument to Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony that sits in the Capitol Rotunda. This bust is very similar to the one in the Capitol and may have been a study for the Capitol bust or the bust Johnson exhibited at the Court of Honor of the Woman's Building at the World's Columbian Exhibition in 1893, on which the Capitol bust was based. It has been dated to between 1890 and 1920.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: general subject association
content: Women's Rights
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content: Political History: Political History, General History Collection
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: Woman Suffrage
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Elizabeth Johnson Cristal
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PL.241839.01.a
label: accession number
content: 241839
label: catalog number
content: 241839.01.a
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bust
label: Object Type
content: sculpture
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: marble (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 24 in x 15 in x 10 in; 60.96 cm x 38.1 cm x 25.4 cm