Declaration of Independence Tablet - Boston, MA
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N 42° 21.257 W 071° 03.875
19T E 329964 N 4691177
This monument is located in Boston Common...not far from the Boston Massacre Monument.
Waymark Code: WMNTB7
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 04/29/2015
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This tablet was erected to commemorate the 250 anniversary of the signing of the Declaration.
This website (visit link) provides the following information:
"Declaration of Independence Tablet
ARTIST:
John Francis Paramino
LOCATION:
Boston Common, on Tremont St. Mall map it
NEIGHBORHOOD:
Downtown
TYPE:
Tablet
YEAR:
1925
MEDIUM:
Bronze and Granite
COLLECTION:
City of Boston
FUNDERS:
Unknown
DESCRIPTION:
To mark the 250th anniversary of American independence, the Board of Park Commissioners allocated funds for this commemorative tablet. Although the Declaration was signed in Philadelphia, not Boston, several prominent Bostonians helped to draft and approve it, including John Adams, Samuel Adams, John Hancock, and Robert Treat Paine—all of whom are depicted here, and some of whom are buried in nearby cemeteries. Sculptor John Francis Paramino modeled his monument’s bronze relief on John Trumbull’s famous large-scale painting, Declaration of Independence, which was hung in the Rotunda of the Capitol building in 1826. Beneath the scene, the Declaration’s text is inscribed in a script nearly identical to that found on the original document."
Type of Memorial: Monument
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