Alexander Hamilton is a bronze

Bronze

Bronze is a metal alloy consisting primarily of copper, usually with tin as the main additive. It is hard and brittle, and it was particularly significant in antiquity, so much so that the Bronze Age was named after the metal...

 statue

Statue

A statue is a sculpture in the round representing a person or persons, an animal, an idea or an event, normally full-length, as opposed to a bust, and at least close to life-size, or larger...

 by James Earle Fraser.
It was dedicated on May 17, 1923, and can be found on the south patio of the U.S. Treasury Building

Treasury Building (Washington, D.C.)

The Treasury Building in Washington, D.C. is a National Historic Landmark building which is the headquarters of the United States Department of the Treasury....

in Washington D.C.

Description

The statue was commissioned in 1917 and dedicated on May 17,1923. The statue was sculpted by James Earl Fraser who sculpted it out of bronze. It features Hamilton in knee breeches, a throat fichu, bucked shoes, and with ruffles on his wrists. The statue also depicts Hamilton holding a three cornered hat and a long dress coat in his hands. The statue is 10 feet high, and was founded by Kunst Foundty. It is on Henry Bacon's 9 feet tall base, which was constructed out of granite.

Inscriptions

The base of the statue is inscribed on three sides, with the front reading:

ALEXANDER HAMILTON

1757 — 1804

FIRST SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY

SOLDIER, ORATOR, STATESMAN

CHAMPION OF CONSTITUTIONAL UNION,

REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT AND

NATIONAL INTEGRITY


The rear of the statue reads:

Fraser 1922

A. Kunst Foundry NY

The north face reads:

"He smote the rock of the national resources and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the public credit and it sprang upon its feet."

External links

• "Alexander Hamilton (Washington D.C. (District of Columbia))", wikimapia
• "Alexander Hamilton Statue ", CSPAN
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/136352725/
• http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=32740