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Statue of Robert Fulton

sculpture by Howard Roberts, portraying the inventor Robert Fulton

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ47322521 ↗
Source-derived summary

Robert Fulton is a marble sculpture depicting the American engineer and inventor of the same name by Howard Roberts, installed at the United States Capitol's National Statuary Hall, in Washington, D.C., as part of the National Statuary Hall Collection. The statue was gifted by the U.S. state of Pennsylvania in 1889.

Editorial summary

“Statue of Robert Fulton” enters the record as sculpture by Howard Roberts, portraying the inventor Robert Fulton. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Statue, Robert and Fulton can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1889—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Statue, Robert and Fulton.
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Why this record matters

“Statue of Robert Fulton” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Statue, Robert and Fulton provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q47322521. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1889.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Statue of Robert Fulton” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.