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The [[recumbence|recumbent]] figure is in a {{convert|60|by|16|ft|m|adj=on}} fountain basin in front of a gray, rectangular wall in the Lower Plaza,<ref name=adams/> located in the middle of Rockefeller Center.<ref>{{cite fednyc |page=336}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Krinsky |first=Carol H. |author-link=Carol Herselle Krinsky |title=Rockefeller Center |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=1978 |isbn=978-0195024043 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7xlDAQAAIAAJ |page=64}}</ref>
The inscription – a paraphrase from [[Aeschylus]] – on the granite wall behind, reads: "Prometheus, teacher in every art, [[theft of fire|brought the fire]] that hath proved to mortals a means to mighty ends."<ref name=adams>{{Cite web|url=http://www.neighborhoodpreservationcenter.org/db/bb_files/1985RockefellerCenter.pdf|title=Rockefeller Center Designation Report|date=1985|publisher=[[Government of New York City|City of New York]]; [[New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission]]|last=Adams|first=Janet|page=168|access-date=2017-12-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107113311/http://www.neighborhoodpreservationcenter.org/db/bb_files/1985RockefellerCenter.pdf|archive-date=2017-11-07|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=roussel>{{cite book| first=Christine| last=Roussel| title=The Art of Rockefeller Center| location=New York| publisher=W.W. Norton & Co.| year= 2006| isbn=978-0393060829|pages=101, 105}}</ref>{{rp|105}}
''Prometheus'' is considered the main artwork of Rockefeller Center, and is one of the complex's more well-known works
=== Associated artworks ===
The statue was flanked by Manship's ''Youth'' and ''Maiden'' (the "Mankind Figures"),
today topped by plants. They were relocated to [[Palazzo d'Italia]] from 1939 to 1984
Four ''Prometheus'' [[maquette]]s exist: one at the [[Smithsonian Institution]]'s [[Smithsonian American Art Museum]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/prometheus-16015|title=Prometheus|website=Smithsonian American Art Museum|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-23}}</ref> one at the [[Minnesota Museum of Art]], and two in private collections.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.shiningcollection.com/prometheus.html |title=Prometheus |publisher=Shining Collection |access-date=2014-06-02}}</ref> A full-scale replica existed [[Grand Indonesia Shopping Town]] recreated by Legacy Entertainment in Entertainment District's Fountain Atrium located in [[Jakarta]], but it has been removed in late 2019 due to the new LED Screen display.
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