THE APPLE WOMAN BY MARSHALL HUTSON AT FITZGERALD’S PARK CORK
Unfortunately, for various reasons, I could not get a good photograph of this statue.
This statue is one of a variety of monuments and sculptures scattered throughout the park, which add to its character and unique sense of place. Sculpted by Marshall Hutson, it is a reminder the city’s trading heritage.
Officially described as follows: “Freestanding limestone statue, erected 1968, comprising square pedestal with female figure draped in shawl with basket and apples in hand. Copper plaque to west elevation of pedestal.”
Marshall C. Hutson (1903-2001) was originally from Nottingham, but adopted the city of Cork when he took up a teaching position at the Crawford School of Art in 1930 where he would continue to teach until his retirement in 1966. Primarily a painter and sculptor working in wood and stone, Hutson also promoted a wide range of artistic disciplines both in his own practice and his teaching. He exhibited regularly at the Royal Hibernian Academy (R.H.A.) for over fifty years between the 1930s and 1980s, and in 1958 he was elected Associate of the R.H.A. Hutson also exhibited at the Royal Academy, London.
TITANIC MEMORIAL STONE AT FITZGERALD’S PUBLIC PARK IN CORK
This has been here since 2012 but I never noticed it until this visit (August 2021) to Fitzgerald’s public park in the Mardyke area of Cork city.
Titanic was planned to arrive at New York Pier 59 on the morning of 17 April. After leaving Queenstown [now Cobh] in Cork , Titanic followed the Irish coast as far as Fastnet Rock, a distance of some 55 nautical miles (63 mi; 102 km). From there she travelled 1,620 nautical miles (1,860 mi; 3,000 km) along a Great Circle route across the North Atlantic to reach a spot in the ocean known as “the corner” south-east of Newfoundland, where westbound steamers carried out a change of course. Titanic sailed only a few hours past the corner on a rhumb line leg of 1,023 nautical miles (1,177 mi; 1,895 km) to Nantucket Shoals Light when she made her fatal contact with an iceberg. The final leg of the journey would have been 193 nautical miles (222 mi; 357 km) to Ambrose Light and finally to New York Harbour.
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