How does this artwork elucidate its Description?
This marble obelisk is on top of a square base with three reliefs on it. The south side of the base has a relief of Benjamin Grenup at the time of his death. The relief shows Grenup being run over by a fire water wagon and his fellow firefighters reacting to the accidental death—one has his arms in the air while the other firefighters stop the wagon. The west side of the base has a relief of a fire hose and two nozzles. The east side has a relief of a fire axe, torch and spanner wrench tied together with a rope. Egg-and-dart motif along with garland and ribbons decorate the sculpture. The sculpture sits on a triangle plot surrounded by a fence. Fire hydrants sit at each of the three corners of the base.
The sculpture is signed on the base, south side: CH. ROUSSEAU. Sculptor.
The west side of the base is inscribed: Monument
Committee.
C Kauffman.
W.P. Hicks.
P. Kraft.The north side of the base is inscribed:
BENJAMIN C. GRENUPAGED 24 YEARS
KILLED IN THE DISCHARGE OF HIS DUTY
MAY 6: 1856
THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED
BY
COLUMBIA ENGINE CO NO 1
TO PERPETUATE THE MEMORY AND NOBLE DEEDS
OF A
GALLANT FIREMAN
A TRUER NOBLER TRUSTIER HEART
MORE LOVING OR MORE LOYAL NEVER BEAT
WITHIN A HUMAN BREASTThe fence gate has signage reading:COLUMBIA, FIRE, CO.
NO 1
J. H. MEAD, - MAKER.
C. St, BETWEEN 9 & 10 Sts
Washington.
Egg-and-dart fire hose Fire hydrants spanner wrench Grenup firefighters fire axe nozzle torch obelisk Fire hydrant