Title	Philosophy
Alternate Title	None
Materials	Plaster
Year Modeled	1895
Year Cast	1895
Year Cut	NA
Year Commissioned	1894
Size	126 in
Subject Keywords	Government, Statue
Current Location(s) Plaster – Rotundra Reading Room, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.. View Map Location with Google Maps
Provenance No previous locations known.
Original Cost to Produce	$5,000.00
2009 GDP Value	$119,000.00

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In studio.

Awards

• No awards for this work.

Exhibitions

• October 20 – 30, 1901: Yale Bicentennial Art Exhibition, Yale University, New Haven, CT.

Inscription

• The Inquiry, Knowledge, And Belief Of Truth Is The Sovereign Good Of Human Nature – Bacon

Notes

• No notes for this work.

Related Works

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• From Bela Lyon Pratt to Sarah Victoria Whittelsey Pratt (His Mother), March 31, 1895
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