1135. Melzar H. Mosman bas relief

1926

Plaster, Cast bronze

8 x 13 1/4 in. (20.3 x 34.9 cm)

Melzar Hunt Mosman (1843 – 1926) was an American sculptor who made a number of Civil War and Spanish–American War monuments in Massachusetts. His father, Silas Mosman, ran the Ames Manufacturing Company's bronze foundry that made statues and monuments at which Melzar worked for many years. In 1884, Mosman started his own foundry, Chicopee Bronze Works. After his foundry closed, Mosman worked for Gorham Manufacturing Company and T. F. McGann & Sons Company. Cast by Gorham Co. Bronze Division, Sept. 10, 1926.

Signed lower left: Christian Petersen, SC

Mrs. Margaret Woodward, Newtonville, MA; location unknown.

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Known from notes in the Gorham Co archives, Brown University, Providence, R.I.