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BUST OF CHARLOTTE SMITH BY ULRIC STONEWALL JACKSON DUNBAR (WASHINGTON DC, 1862-1927) - Signed in the casting. Life-size bust of Smith, with her hair up. Quotes from Goethe, Tennyson, Renan, Virgil and Dante cast into the the plinth. 27” high. Dunbar was a Canadian-born sculptor who spent his career in DC and whose other subjects included Sitting Bull and Frederick Douglass. Charlotte Buffet Smith was the wife of noted microbiologist Erwin F. Smith. She died young, only in her 30s. Condition: Retains its original patina, with some wear on the high points.