7th public exhibition of the Greek Slave: 26 October 1848 through 3 January 1849

          Apollo Hall, which housed the substitute Greek Slave while it was in Cincinatti, was less a gallery than a multi-purpose building containing "a range of stores on the ground floor; Wood's Museum, Gundry's Commercial College, Hawkins' Daguerrean Gallery, and various private offices on the upper floors (Cist 161). It is here that the statue encountered the first major concerns of propriety on the part of its spectators—notably local religious leaders and clergymen—many of whom called for segregated viewings for men and women. Powers responded to criticisms of his statue's nudity: "Surely, there is no indecency in the attitude and expression of my Slave, and if this be examined, why, then, the Lord is reproved by the members of the arts union, I mean the officers of that institution, for shaping us poor mortals in so vulgar and indecent a form—perhaps those officers might suggest some improvement by the Almighty" (qtd. Wunder 233).