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Pomnik Tadeusza Kościuszki w Waszyngtonie

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Puget W.

Ochrona Zabytków

1994

issue 2

202-203

In the second half of the nineteenth century a large part of the Polish emigration made its way to North America. Several decades later, it comprised an almost four millionstrong community, organized in a thousand different associations which cultivated national traditions and, predominantly, patriotic feelings. When in 1903 the American Congress decided to build a statue of Kazimierz Pulaski, the Polish emigres embarked upon a collection of funds for a monument of Tadeusz Kościuszko, a general in the American War of Independence and a hero of the struggle waged for a free Poland at the end of the eighteenth century. The execution of the monument was entrusted to Antoni Popiel, a well-known Polish sculptor. The monument was located in Lafayette park opposite the White House. The unveiling which took place in 1910 was a great state ceremony attended by the President of the United States and delegations from partitioned Poland. A threemeter high bronze figure of General Tadeusz Kościuszko, standing on a granite pedestal, is dressed in an Amercian uniform. Figures of soldiers including that of a Polish peasant who brandishes a scythe against tsarist troops, surround the monument’s base; an eagle symbolizes the Polish national emblem. Almost eighty years later, the metal surface of the monument became corroded and required conservation which was inaugurated in 1987.

Konserwacja rzeźby z brązu eksponowanej na wolnym powietrzu : pomnik Tadeusza Kościuszki w Waszyngtonie

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Montagna D. R.

Ochrona Zabytków

1994

issue 2

204-210

This is a translation of an article which was published for the first time in a brochure entitled „Preservation Technotes”, National Park Service. U. S. Department of the Interir, Washington. D. C., Metals, number 1, August 1989, and subsequently in a report from a symposium on ,Air Pollution and Historical Monuments in Cracow”, held on 21-18June 1989 in Cracow (publ. US/ICOMOS, Washington D. C., 1991). The author discusses in great detail the conservation o f the bronze Tadeusz Kościuszko monument in Washington D. C. The removal of pollutants, bird droppings, and dirt was followed by washing the surface with a non-ionizing detergent and wallnut shell blasting. Universally applied sand blasting was considered as overly aggressive for the bronze surface which was then treated with anti-corrosion inhibitors, a protective coating of wax and buffed. Yearly control is foreseen.

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Pomnik Tadeusza Kościuszki w Waszyngtonie

Konserwacja rzeźby z brązu eksponowanej na wolnym powietrzu : pomnik Tadeusza Kościuszki w Waszyngtonie