The Picket

The Picket
The sculpture in 2013.
Artist	Cyrus Edwin Dallin
Year	1905
Type	Bronze
Location	Hanover, Pennsylvania, United States

The Picket (1905) is an equestrian sculpture by Cyrus E. Dallin in Hanover, Pennsylvania. The work is also referred to by the titles Cavalryman and The Sentry. The sculpture is made of cast bronze and sits on a granite pedestal measuring twelve feet by eight feet. The total height of both the sculpture and the pedestal is twenty feet or about six meters.^[1]

The sculpture was erected on September 28, 1905,^[2] having been paid for by the state of Pennsylvania. It stood in a roundabout in the middle of Hanover’s Center Square until it was moved in 1968; since then, it has stood north of the square outside 30 Center Square, Hanover.^[3]

The sculpture commemorates the Battle of Hanover, which took place on June 30, 1863.^[4] The Picket does not represent a particular participant in the Battle of Hanover; instead, it commemorates all of the unnamed cavalrymen whose names have been lost to history.

References

^ Quinby, Florence Cole (1913). The Equestrian Monuments of the World. New York City. pp. 20–21. hdl:2027/hvd.32044108417320.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ Levy, Florence Nightingale (1905). American Art Annual, Vol. V. New York City: R.R. Bowker. p. 130.
^ "Battle of Hanover Monument". Stone Sentinels. Retrieved 2021-08-24.
^ Francis, Rell Gardner (1976). Cyrus E. Dallin: Let Justice Be Done. Springville, UT: Francis. p. 84.