Cordelia, Pierce Francis Connelly, 1865
Pierce Francis Connelly

Cordelia

1865 · Sculpture · 53.4 × 50.8 cm

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Pierce Francis Connelly modeled Cordelia after his elder sister, Adeline. Cordelia is the youngest daughter of Shakespeare’s King Lear. In the play, Cordelia, the aging monarch’s only loyal child, battles to save her father’s kingdom. The Smithsonian Institution used this sculpture as a model for the faces of all the first lady mannequins in the National Museum of American History.

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1998.43.2

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