Where Would You Find These Neatly Folded Hands?

Let's play Attention to Detail! We give you a close-up clue and you have to figure out where you've seen it around Boston.

Here are some hints:

• The hands are on a statue of a woman that was created by a woman.
• The statue is of a Quaker and was created by a Quaker.
• It is located next to a famous building. 
• It was installed in 1959.

Ready? Click through for the answer.

The neatly folded hands in the last clue are on the statue of Mary Dyer that has been on the State House lawn since 1959. Dyer was hanged on the Boston Common for her Quaker religious beliefs. The sculptor of this work Sylvia Shaw Judson was also a Quaker. She embodied a sense of serenity in this work of art. Another version of this statue can be found at the Race Street Meetinghouse in Philadelphia.

 

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Words: Penny & Ed Cherubino
Photography: © 2017 Penny & Ed Cherubino