They approached the sculptor Václav Levý, who was working in Rome at the time, and the architect Antonín Viktor Barvitius.

Levý made a sketch and a small model of the statue, depicting Jungmann as a seated figure with a scroll and pen.

Work on the monument was interrupted by Levy's illness and sudden death in 1870.

[1] The commission was then taken over by Ludvík Šimek [cs], who used the original sketch and completed the statue, cast in Vienna,[2] in 1872.

The pedestal was made by Erhard Ackermann according to a design by Barvitius.The foundation stone for the monument was laid in 1873 by Palacký.