BURKE, Edmund: Statue near Mount Vernon Square in Washington, D.C. by J Harvard Thomas located in James M. Goode's Massachusetts Avenue area

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BURKE, Edmund: Statue near Mount Vernon Square in Washington, D.C. by J Harvard Thomas located in James M. Goode's Massachusetts Avenue area

This bronze statue of Edmund Burke by J. Harvard Thomas stands near Mount Vernon Square in Washington, D.C., in the Massachusetts Avenue area. It is a copy of a work in Bristol, England, gifted to the U.S. by Sir Charles Cheers Wakefield in 1922. The statue commemorates Burke's political legacy and is located near the McPherson Square Metro station. It is documented in James M. Goode's Washington Sculpture and the Smithsonian Art Inventories Catalog.