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A fact from Statue of George Washington (Houdon) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 24 July 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that when asked to sculpt George Washington from life (pictured), Jean-Antoine Houdon demanded a life insurance policy for his trip to the United States?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2012/July.

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I cut this out and moved it here

* Northern Ireland,
What I have been able to discover is that in 1914 the state of Virginia decided to give a statue to Great Britain & Ireland, who at that time were one country. It seems to have been 1921 when this happened and I believe that there was only one statue given, the one in London. If anyone discovers otherwise please return it to its rightful place. Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 05:50, 8 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Here is a link to that transaction. [1] Carptrash (talk) 05:53, 8 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I have found

the Corcoran Galley website to be extremely used unfriendly in terms of searching their collection but my Sculpture at the Corcoran ^[1] has the Washington as being just a bust, so I've put this here until we know more.

^ Finn, David, ‘’Sculpture at the Corcoran: Photographs by David Finn’’, text by David Finn and Susan Joy Slack, Ruder Finn Press and The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 2002

Carptrash (talk) 18:50, 8 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

the Budapest statue

seems to have been done by Bezerédi Gyula - who was my second guess. Carptrash (talk) 22:02, 8 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Information needed on these statues

So thanks to the gallery, there seems to be several clear versions of the statue, but that have very little information, or are possibly even post-Gorham casts (not all the Gorham casts are accounted for, indeed with varied numbers, but mostly 22 produced of some variety).

Inside the Washington Monument in D.C., apparently put there in the 1990s
Barranquilla (Colombia), with very little information
France, one in Saint-Martin-de-Ré (is it possibly that it may be the unaccounted for Versailles copy?)
A recent cast placed at Washington University in St. Louis

- Morgan Riley (talk) 22:12, 8 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations

Lovely to see this grow from a little stub 18 months ago! Johnbod (talk) 02:58, 24 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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[1] Finn, David, ‘’Sculpture at the Corcoran: Photographs by David Finn’’, text by David Finn and Susan Joy Slack, Ruder Finn Press and The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 2002

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