Bethesda Terrace

The angel over the waters ( in the original English Angel of the Waters) by Emma Stebbins ( 1815-1882 ) was erected as a memorial to the construction of the Croton Aqueduct water line in New York's Central Park. The bronze statue stands above the upper bowl of the fountain " Bethesda Fountain " at the park crossing street at the height of 72nd Street at the end of the Mall, the Terrace Drive. It has a height of about 2.6 meters. Stebbins began with the work on the statue in Rome ( at the beginning of the Civil War ) in 1861. The sculpture was completed in 1868 and inaugurated in 1873. The contract for this to her as a woman at that time was a novelty. Built it is over the pelvis of Calvert Vaux.

Description

In one ending above the ankles wide dress the figure is progressing with his left foot. The lily in her hand represents the purity of the water and four figures on the lower shell, well above the large basin stand for peace, health, purity and temperance ( Peace, Health, Purity, Temperance ). With her ​​right hand she blesses.

By Emma Stebbins submitted, inter alia, the bronze statue of the U.S. education reformer Horace Mann in Boston and the marble statue of Columbus in the Supreme Court of the State of New York in New York City.