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The Peter Nicol Russell Memorial site at the PNR Building, University of Sydney, Australia portrays significant rhetorical symbolism and cemented itself as a secondary memorandum to the late Peter Nicol Russell who was a benefactor to the University of Sydney's PNR building.

The monument includes a portrait man and woman with a smaller statue of Peter Nicol Russell residing on the top of a pillar, overlooking both statues. As this item was situated at the Peter Nicol Russel building at the University of Sydney, I assumed that the state was correlated with the building name. Research directed me to find information that the building and memorial was named after iron founder, engineer and benefactor Sir Peter Nicol Russell. Russell and his brothers inherited their fathers engineering company which Russell transformed into a highly successful engineering venture where he drafted a majority of prominent constructions in the Uniter Kingdom and Australia. Russell offered £50,000 (approx. $100,000 AUD) to the University of Sydney where he asked for the building to be named after him as well as offering Engineering scholarships to high achieving students. (Corbett, 1976). The artifact is constructed of granite and bronze, which happens to be "a duplicate of Russell's St Marylebone Cemetery memorial" Which was presented to the University by Lady Russell in honour of her husband (University of Sydney, 2013).

In light of the statue's context, the statue appeals to the university and it's students as well as other notable Engineering professors. As the University of Sydney is known for producing and drawing inspiration from a variety of diverse, educational visionaries, the use of placing artifact's such as the Peter Nicol Russell Memorial at the university could reflect as a statement mirroring USYD's educational aims to motivate and inspire students flocking to the building for classes. By placing this particular artifact in the Engineering building, it strongly appeals of the students who take engineering classes to look up to a notable figure in the engineering field and students of other disciplines to respect and acknowledge Engineering history. Visitors of the university could perhaps be investors or professors from other alumni's, may too appreciate this artifact and display connections to Russell's historical past, creating a sense of ethos as this figure is seen as an authoritative entity.

The actual statue depicts a woman/ angel and a man, these portraits could symbolize and heighten ethos due to the nature and analogy of woman and man. Since the woman is displayed with wings, she can be seen as an authoritative or biblical figure. Upon further research, there is no record of the date the statue was erected, thus estimations were based on the fact that Australia was predominantly a Christian country, especially during the early 18th-19th century when the Catholic church governed the land. From that conclusion, the image of the woman/ angel can be seen as an authoritative or heaven-sent figure, protecting or shadowing the man. This could further imply that man will always bee shadowed by an angel, implementing prosperity.

References: http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/russell-sir-peter-nicol-4527, http://sydney.edu.au/engineering/about/history.shtml#peter-nicol-russell