Provenance

Gift 1967 of Clyde C. Trees through subscription to the Society of Medalists (Seventy-Fourth Issue) to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.

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Inscriptions

under truncation of bust: RALPH.J.MENCONI ©1967; around circumference in three concentrc lines: .WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT - THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL. / .THAT THEY ARE ENPOWERED BY THEIR CREATOR WITH CERTAIN UNALIENABLE RIGHTS. / .THAT AMONG THESE ARE LIFE - LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS.