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| THE BALDWIN MONUMENT, TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN. -The chaste and beautiful monument here presented was erected in the last century to the memory of Dr. Richard Baldwin, Provost of the University, who died A. D. 1758. Particular pride is taken in the memorial by the faculty and students of Trinity College, in whose examination hall it stands, because it is from the design of Professor Hewetson, a distinguished Dublin artist. The black and gold sarcophagus supports a white marble "mattress" on which reclines the figure of the learned Provost, in proportions almost heroine. The left hand holds a scroll which represents the endowment fund will, by which the sum of $400,000 was left by him to the college. The female effigy, in posture of grief, represents the University, while the figure at the feet of the Provost is that of an angel, bearing in its left hand a palm, and pointing heavenward with the right. Behing the group rises imposingly the graceful pyramid of variegated Egyptian porphyry. |
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