Henry Clay 1858 Thomas Ball American Encouraged by the commercial success of his "Daniel Webster" statuette (69.219.2), Ball modeled "Henry Clay" in Boston as a companion piece." By pairing Webster and Clay, Ball was alluding to their foremost roles in the negotiation of national compromise in the pre-Civil War era. Clay (1777-1852) held many offices on the federal level during his long career and came out of retirement in 1850 to orchestrate the Compromise of 1850, an effort to prevent open hostilities between the North and the South over the expansion of slavery. Ball strove for a realistic representation of Clay, but he never saw him in person, and so relied on photographs and other images of the sitter. Ball posed Clay in contemporary dress and in a modified contrapposto stance. He grasps a rolled document in his hands and looks to his left. To his left is a draped broken column, which on a symbolic level represents fortitude. Although the figure is characterized by broad planes, s

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Henry Clay 1858 Thomas Ball American Encouraged by the commercial success of his "Daniel Webster" statuette (69.219.2), Ball modeled "Henry Clay" in Boston as a companion piece." By pairing Webster and Clay, Ball was alluding to their foremost roles in the negotiation of national compromise in the pre-Civil War era. Clay (1777-1852) held many offices on the federal level during his long career and came out of retirement in 1850 to orchestrate the Compromise of 1850, an effort to prevent open hostilities between the North and the South over the expansion of slavery. Ball strove for a realistic representation of Clay, but he never saw him in person, and so relied on photographs and other images of the sitter. Ball posed Clay in contemporary dress and in a modified contrapposto stance. He grasps a rolled document in his hands and looks to his left. To his left is a draped broken column, which on a symbolic level represents fortitude. Although the figure is characterized by broad planes, s

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