Ezra Cornell Medallion
- Title:
- Ezra Cornell Medallion
- Collection:
- Campus Artifacts, Art & Memorabilia
- Creator:
- Gutsell, Hiram Samuel
- Photographer:
- Espinosa de los Monteros, Pamela
- Date:
- ca. 1870-1920
- Acquisition Date:
- ca. 1870-1920
- Site:
- University Foundry
- Location:
- Uris Library, Tower Room, Cornell University
University Foundry - Country:
- United States
- ID Number:
- artsdb_0360
- Accession Number:
- W84-22.4
- File Name:
- artsdb_0360.jpg
- Culture:
- American
- Work Type:
- portraits
medals
medallions (ornament areas) - Materials/Techniques:
- cast in the University foundry
- Subject:
- Cornell, Ezra, 1807-1874
- Image View Type:
- General
- Image View Description:
- Front View
- Description:
- Portrait medallions, seven known castings: one in Mexico City, one set in the wall of the stone terrace, Uris Library, one at entrance of Citizens Savings Bank, Ithaca, New York, two at the main entrance of the Richard M. Lewis Field House, Plantations, one at the top of Eddy Gate, and one at the DeWitt Historical Society of Tompkins County, Ithaca, New York. All were designed by H. S. Gutzell and cast in the University foundry behind Sibley Hall (now the Sculpture laboratory). One of the medallions was found in a snowbank outside an antiques shop, rescued and given to Cornell. One had been stolen by an undergraduate and returned in later life. Each approximately two feet in diameter.
- Repository:
- Cornell University
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The content in the Campus Artifacts, Art & Memorabilia Collection is protected by copyright, and the copyright holders are Cornell University Library and the Cornell Association of Professors Emeritus. This collection was created by Cornell University Library in 2010, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Howard Howland. Cornell is providing access to the materials for research and personal use. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Please contact the Cornell Association of Professors Emeritus at cape@cornell.edu for more information about this collection, or to request permission to use these images.