Focus on Statue of Thomas Jefferson (David d'Angers) and explore the abstract.
A statue of American Founding Father and U.S. President Thomas Jefferson by the French sculptor David d'Angers stands in the Capitol rotunda of the U.S. Congress. Jefferson is portrayed holding a copy of the United States Declaration of Independence, which he mainly drafted in 1776 as a member of the Committee of Five during the Second Continental Congress. The painted plaster model also stood in the chambers of the New York City Council.
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