{"id":15449,"date":"2014-01-23T03:00:24","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T08:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=15449"},"modified":"2019-11-26T06:45:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T11:45:56","slug":"the-george-washington-equestrian-monument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2014\/01\/23\/the-george-washington-equestrian-monument\/","title":{"rendered":"The George Washington Equestrian Monument"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Washington-Equestrian-det\"<\/a>Unlike the photograph in last week’s post<\/a>, I know what the subject is and where John Capewell<\/strong> was when he took this exposure. This was and is The George Washington Equestrian Monument<\/strong> in Richmond, Virginia. It looks as if Capewell bundled his camera, tripod and glass negatives for a trip down South.<\/p>\n

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The monument was unveiled twenty years before John Capewell’s birth, and sadly the man who sculpted Washington, Thomas Crawford<\/strong><\/a>, died shortly and unexpectedly before his work had returned from Germany where it was cast. The lower figures were sculpted by Randolph Rodgers.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\"Washington-Equestrian\"<\/a><\/p>\n

About The Capewell Glass Negative Collection<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Capewell Glass Negative<\/strong> Collection<\/strong><\/a> is a series of about 200 5-inch by 7-inch glass negatives shot early in the 20th Century by John Batt Capewell<\/strong> (1878-1951) of Westville, New Jersey.<\/strong> John passed the negatives down to his son Henry who left them in his wife\u2019s possession upon his passing. Henry\u2019s widow didn\u2019t know what to do with them and didn\u2019t particularly want them so she offered them to my Dad who couldn\u2019t turn down anything. Ultimately I wound up with them and thought I would one day have photographic prints struck from them. That didn\u2019t happen, but I came up with the digital workaround of placing the negatives on a lightbox and rephotographing them with a digital camera. The \u201cprocessing\u201d<\/em> was then done on a computer with image editing software. They came out better than I thought they would so I thought I would show them off to the world on this site. Many of these pictures have not been seen in a century, and I\u2019m proud to be presenting them today.<\/p>\n

At first, I did not know who the people were in the photographs. I have a box of ephemera that accompanied the negatives and snagged a few clues from that as far as the Capewell name. I did some research on the internet and had a few false starts and wrong turns, but the readers of these posts have provided a remarkable amount of research and detail. I\u2019m amazed at what people have turned up sifting through public records and such!<\/p>\n

Last Week: A Neoclassical Mystery<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unlike the photograph in last week’s post, I know what the subject is and where John Capewell was when he took this exposure. This was and is The George Washington Equestrian Monument in Richmond, Virginia. 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