Daniel Chester French – Bashford Dean Memorial Tablet – American, New York – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/32368
Signature: Signed and dated (lower right): D.C.F./1930Inscription: Inscribed: (on shield) LOYALTY / WISDOM / FRIENDSHIP / DILIGENCE; (on field, lower half) BASHFORD DEAN / 1867–1928 / HONORARY CURATOR OF ARMS AND ARMOR 1906 / CURATOR OF ARMS AND ARMOR 1912 / TRUSTEE 1927 / THE REAL FOUNDER OF / THE MUSEUM’S COLLECTION / WHICH BY HIS KNOWLEDGE AND DEVOTION / HE MADE / ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT / OF THE WORLDMarking: Foundry mark (lower right, under signature): KUNST F’DRY N
Museum’s Department of Arms and Armor, Bashford Dean (1867–1928) was also a professor
