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Field Trip Journal The Peter Nicol Russell statue is located outside the PNR School for Engineering on Sydney University Camperdown Campus. It was constructed to commemorate Mr Russell’s contributions to the construction of an Engineering Department at Sydney University. His wife Charlotte Russell guided the construction of the statue. By the time he died in 1905, Mr Russell had donated £100,000 to the Engineering department.

Mr Russell's wife wrote the text on the statue before it was presented to the university. It includes the line, 'A Munificent Benefactor and Endower’; the admiring tone of this line as well as the use of the word 'Munificent' suggests that Mrs Russell wants to preserve the memory of her husband in a positive light. The use of two adjectives for generosity ('Munificent' and 'Endower'), highlights to the author's intended audience; as well as secondary audiences; their purpose, to memorialise the generous involvement of Mr Russell in the creation of Sydney University’s Engineering department. The informative and commemorative nature of the text on the statue means that there is neither fiction nor humor present within the inscription. The text doesn't specify the nature of Mr Russell's contribution, which implies that the author assumes that the audience has some knowledge of Mr Russell before viewing the statue. The primary audience of the statue is the people that walk past and view the statue. The clear and short nature of the text suggests that the inscription also accounts for those outside of its primary audience. The statue, upon which the text is inscribed, is constructed from granite and bronze and was designed by Edgar Bertram Mackennal.