Photo Credit: Roving Rube. Viewpoint: Within Central Park, near 72nd St., looking south, 2/28/02, afternoon.

Notes (Roving Rube): This sculpture is sited romantically atop a high rocky outcropping in Central Park.

Many of Central Park's sculptures are now accompanied by interpretive signage that would do the Encyclopedia Brittanica proud, much to the Rube's delight. In the absence of a tour guide, always read the signage, is his rule.

In it we learn that a wealthy New York businessman saw the original of this statue at an exhibition in Italy, and liked it so much that he commissioned a full size replica for Central Park.

Years later a wealthy Boston businessman saw this sculpture from his hospital room in New York, and commissioned another replica for a park in Boston.

It would a real feather in the Rube's cap if he could say a few wealthy businessmen saw it on his site and bought one for their own cities. Please apply to the heirs of its British sculptor, George Blackall Simonds.