P.T. Barnum
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Object Details
- Cast after
- Thomas Ball, 3 Jun 1819 - 11 Dec 1911
- Foundry
- Modern Art Foundry
- Sitter
- P. T. Barnum, 5 Jul 1810 - 7 Apr 1891
- Exhibition Label
- Born Bethel, Connecticut
- Showman Phineas T. Barnum opened the curtain on modern mass entertainment. He dazzled in the era before technology facilitated the broadcasting of performance—just before the advent of the recording, radio, and motion picture industries; before the rise of the advertising industry; before the mass distribution of photography in the new rotogravure sections of the Sunday newspapers. Yet Barnum still succeeded with such orchestrated events as the introduction of the diminutive General Tom Thumb in the 1840s, the American tour of songbird Jenny Lind in 1850–51, and the creation, in 1881, with James Bailey, of the Barnum & Bailey Circus.
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
- 1883(cast 1973)
- Object number
- NPG.70.24.1
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Sculpture
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- With Socle: 77.5 x 63.5 x 38.1cm (30 1/2 x 25 x 15")
- Socle footprint: 24.1 x 24.1cm (9 1/2 x 9 1/2")
- See more items in
- National Portrait Gallery Collection
- Exhibition
- Bravo!
- On View
- NPG, South Gallery 321 Mezzanine
- National Portrait Gallery
- Topic
- P. T. Barnum: Male
- P. T. Barnum: Performing Arts\Performer\Showman
- P. T. Barnum: Performing Arts\Circus owner
- P. T. Barnum: Society and Social Change\Administrator\Cultural organization administrator\Museum
- Portrait
- Record ID
- npg_NPG.70.24.1
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm496ba80b3-5a6f-445e-9981-f7a7270227f4
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