Items of Founding Fathers On View
GEORGE WASHINGTON'S LIFE MASK, THOMAS JEFFERSON LETTER, DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE NOW ON VIEW AT THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM
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Three important items associated with America’s Founding Fathers are now on view at The Morgan Library & Museum.
In the rotunda of the Morgan’s celebrated McKim Building, a plaster life mask of George Washington (1732–1799) is on display. Created by French sculptor, Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741–1828), the cast was made in 1785 when the artist visited Washington at his Mount Vernon home.
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