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English: Tam O'Shanter statuary group (c. 1837, red sandstone), Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Carved by Scottish sculptor James Thom, it was installed at the foot of Lemon Hill, opposite Boathouse Row, November 10, 1877.

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Title: Rand McNally Philadelphia guide to the city and environs
Year: 1915 (1910s)
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Publisher: New York, Rand McNally
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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farther brings one to Belmont Mansion, erected about 1743, the Revolutionarycountry seat of Judge Richard Peters, an eminent patriot. Sec-retary of War, and the contemporary of Robert Morris. On the bank of the river below Belmont, and oppositePeters Island, may still be seen a little house which is called Tom Moores Cottage, though the truth of the story thatMoore once lived in it has been questioned. The shady walksof Belmont Glen connect the two houses. North of Belmont the park spreads out in a spacious area ofhills, dales, and beautiful woodlands, and the drive passesover high ground, giving views of the Belmont Driving Park,Park Nursery, and the river, with the marble-studded slopesof Laurel Hill beyond. The old mansion of Chamounix is aninteresting point in the northern end of the park. From hereone may turn backward along the West Drive, and thus followthe river bank down to the starting point at Girard Ave. bridge. Other notable art objects in the park include the equestrian
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Tarn OShanter Group in Sandstone Fairmount Park Page 70 70 RAND McNALLY PHILADELPHIA GUIDE statue of Grant, by Daniel C. French and Edward C. Potter;the equestrian statue of Major-General George G. Meade byAlexander Milne Calder; the equestrian statue of Jeanne DArcby Emmanuel Fremiet; the bust (heroic size) of James A.Garfield by St. Gaudens; statues of Schiller, Columbus,Goethe; the Tam OShanter group of four figures in sandstoneby James Thorn; John J. Boyles Stone Age in America; Medicine Man, by Cyrus Edwin Dallin; Dying Lioness byWilhelm Wolff and Lion-Fighter by Albert Wolff; LionessCarrying to her Young a Wild Boar by August Cain; HudsonBay Wolves by Edward Kemeys; Frederick RemingtonsCow Boy; Night, bronze statue by Edward Stauch;Orestes and Plyades, fountain; bronze group by CarlSteinhaeuser. Silenus and the Infant Bacchus, bronze,areproduction, the original supposed to be by Praxiteles.The Wrestlers, a reproduction in bronze of an antique. Playgrounds. In West Park there are

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