Bronze relief devoted to the benefits of book printing for America on the monument to Johannes Gutenberg (1840) by French sculptor David d'Angers in Strasbourg, Alsace, France. Persons in the foreground from left to right: Benjamin Rush, Lewis Morris and Thomas Jefferson, General Lafayette and George Washington (both in bicornes), Benjamin Franklin holding the Declaration of Independence depicted next to the printing press, John Hancock, Henry Laurens, John Adams and Simon Bolivar with the Indians. George Clinton, Francis Hopkinson, Charles Carroll, George Wythe, John Morton, Samuel Chase, Tho
Bronze relief devoted to the benefits of book printing for America on the monument to Johannes Gutenberg (1840) by French sculptor David d'Angers in Strasbourg, Alsace, France. Persons in the foreground from left to right: Benjamin Rush, Lewis Morris and Thomas Jefferson, General Lafayette and George Washington (both in bicornes), Benjamin Franklin holding the Declaration of Independence depicted next to the printing press, John Hancock, Henry Laurens, John Adams and Simon Bolivar with the Indians. George Clinton, Francis Hopkinson, Charles Carroll, George Wythe, John Morton, Samuel Chase, Thomas Nelson and other signatories to the Declaration of Independence of the United States are depicted in the background.
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