{"id":3042,"date":"2013-08-30T10:50:48","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T14:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/?p=3042"},"modified":"2013-08-30T10:50:48","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T14:50:48","slug":"general-hawkins-sword-to-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/general-hawkins-sword-to-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil War General Hawkins&#8217; sword to return to Annmary Brown Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As announced earlier this summer in a <a href=\"https:\/\/news.brown.edu\/pressreleases\/2013\/06\/sword\" target=\"_blank\">Brown University press release<\/a>\u00a0and on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/brown-university-library-retrieves-a-long-lost-sword\/\" target=\"_blank\">Library News blog<\/a>, a silver Tiffany presentation sword once owned by General Rush Hawkins (Annmary Brown Memorial benefactor, 1831\u20131920) is returning to Brown. The sword was stolen from Brown sometime during the 1970s, and subsequently switched ownership at least four times.<\/p>\n<p>Shown below are two portraits of a young Rush Hawkins: a 1863\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dl.lib.brown.edu\/repository2\/repoman.php?verb=render&amp;id=1321547511265626&amp;view=showmods\" target=\"_blank\">engraving by John Chester Buttre based on a photo by Mathew Brady<\/a> (click image below for a zoomable image view), and a 1860 portrait by Jacob D. Blondel\u00a0currently housed in the Annmary Brown Memorial building (photographed by DPS for a Memorial <a href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-content\/uploads\/AMB_brochure_web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">promotional brochure<\/a>).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3058\" style=\"width: 1128px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tuvok.services.brown.edu\/adore-djatoka\/viewer.html?filename=1321547519156253.jp2\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3058\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3058\" alt=\"Hawkins-Buttre\" src=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hawkins-Buttre1.jpg\" width=\"1118\" height=\"1329\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3058\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hawkins by Buttre\/Brady<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3060\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3060\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3060\" alt=\"Hawkins-by-Jacob-D-Blondel-1860\" src=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hawkins-by-Jacob-D-Blondel-18601.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1192\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3060\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hawkins portrait by Blondel<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cabinets in the front section of the Annmary Brown Memorial, pictured below, showcase swords from the Cyril and Harriet Mazansky British Sword Collection, part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/cds\/askb\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3049\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3049\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3049 \" alt=\"amb-swords-1\" src=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-content\/uploads\/amb-swords-1.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3049\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Swords from the Cyril and Harriet Mazansky British Sword Collection (Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection). Photo: Lindsay Elgin.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3050\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3050\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3050 \" alt=\"amb-swords-2\" src=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-content\/uploads\/amb-swords-2.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3050\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Swords from the Cyril and Harriet Mazansky British Sword Collection (Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection). Photo: Lindsay Elgin.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Library will officially celebrate the return of Hawkins&#8217; presentation sword on November 7, 2013 at 3:00 p.m., at the <a href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/about\/amb\/\" target=\"_blank\">Annmary Brown Memorial<\/a>. The event will feature brief presentations, a performance by the Higher Keys (Brown\u2019s oldest co-ed a cappella group), and refreshments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As announced earlier this summer in a Brown University press release\u00a0and on the Library News blog, a silver Tiffany presentation sword once owned by General Rush Hawkins (Annmary Brown Memorial benefactor, 1831\u20131920) is returning to Brown. The sword was stolen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/general-hawkins-sword-to-return\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,128],"tags":[129,130],"class_list":["post-3042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-anne-s-k-brown-military-collection","category-annmary-brown-memorial","tag-rush-hawkins","tag-swords","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3042"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3093,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042\/revisions\/3093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}