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''Samuel Gross'' is a bronze statue by Alexander Stirling Calder as a tribute to Samuel D. Gross, an American surgeon. It is located in Sidney and Ethal Lubert Plaza, on the North side of Locust Street, East of 11th Street, Philadelphia.〔http://www.philart.net/person.php?id=45〕 It was completed in 1897, and dedicated by president William McKinley, in the Smithsonian Park of the U.S. Capitol on a pedestal appropriated by the U.S. Congress. In April 1970, it was relocated to the campus of Thomas Jefferson University in Center City Philadelphia. 〔http://jdc.jefferson.edu/campus_art_TJU/4/〕 The inscription reads: JABOEUF & BEZOUT FONDEURS A PARIS (Sculpture, lower proper left side:) CALDER (Base, front:) American Physicians have erected this statue to commemorate great deeds of a man who made such an impression on American surgery that it has served to dignify American Medicine 1897 signed Founder's mark appears. 〔("Dr. Samuel Gross, (sculpture) ). ''SIRIS''〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Samuel Gross (Calder)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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