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"George Washington"
also known as: “Enthroned Washington”

sculptor: Horatio Greenough, 1840

commissioned by the U.S. Congress for the centennial of Washington's birth

based on Phidias' great statue of Zeus

National Museum of American History museum
Washington, District of Columbia
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inscription:
SIMULACRUM ISTUD
AD MAGNUM LIBERTATIS EXEMPLUM
NEC SINE IPSA DURATURUM
HORATIUS GREENOUGH
FACIEBAT

translation:
"Horatio Greenough made this image as a great example of freedom, which will not survive without freedom itself."

Taken in: United States / District of Columbia / Washington / Monumental Core (show map)

Taken on: January 1, 2012

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