Great Hamilton
Kristen Visbal won the competition to design and produce the Hamilton statue. As you can see, its most striking feature is the thirteen-star American flag that the Federalist politician is shown wearing as a cape, billowing from his shoulders. In fact, the official name of the statue is “The American Cape.”
At over twelve feet high, this is said to be the largest statue of Hamilton in existence, bigger than Boston’s, the Treasury Department’s, Columbia University’s, or Paterson, New Jersey’s.
However, the marble statue of Hamilton made for the New York Merchants Exchange in 1835 is said to have been fourteen feet high on its base—I don’t know how that compares. That tribute was on display for less than a year before being destroyed when the building burned down.
5 comments:
Is it technically legal to wear the American flag (of any sort) as an apparel cape? Just wondering...
The U.S. Flag Code does rule out clothing based on the flag, but that statute is advisory, unenforceable, and far more honored in the breach these days.
I hesitate to point out that the wrinkling of the gentleman's garments points to a place other than his shoulders, a place which I found noticeable. I do apologize.
Well, this is Hamilton, after all.
...and he perfected his aim in the artillery during the war.
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