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Statue of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare is an outdoor bronze sculpture of William Shakespeare by John Quincy Adams Ward, located in in , . The cornerstone for the statue was laid on April 23rd, 1864, the tercentenary of William Shakespeare's birth.
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  • Type: Work of art
  • Artwork_type: statue
  • Description: bronze statue by John Quincy Adams Ward
  • Also known as: “William Shakespeare”

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The is a 6.5-acre zoo located at the southeast corner of in . It is part of an integrated system of four zoos and one aquarium managed by the Wildlife Conservation Society. is situated 790 feet south of Statue of William Shakespeare.

Museum
The is an art museum located in , New York City, on 53rd Street between and Sixth Avenues. MoMA's collection spans the late 19th century to the present, and includes over 200,000 works of architecture and design, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, prints, illustrated and artist's books, film, as well as electronic media. is situated 3,300 feet southwest of Statue of William Shakespeare.

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is a neighborhood on the of in New York City. It forms the lower section of the Upper East Side, east of Park Avenue in the 60s and 70s.

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Statue of William Shakespeare

Latitude
40.7698° or 40° 46′ 11″ north
Longitude
-73.97237° or 73° 58′ 21″ west
Inception
May 23rd, 1872
Open location code
87G8Q29H+W3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 561950053
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­artwork
Open­Street­Map attribute
artwork_type=­statue
Wiki­data ID
Q17194246
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In Other Languages

From Hungarian to Tamil—“Statue of William Shakespeare” goes by many names.
  • Hungarian: “William Shakespeare-szobor”
  • Russian: “Уильям Шекспир”
  • Tamil: “வில்லியம் சேக்சுபியர் சிலை”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Statue of William Shakespeare”. Photo: Ahodges7, Public domain.