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English: "The Declaration" by Barry Faulkner is one of two large oil-on-canvas murals that are displayed in the Rotunda for the Charters of Freedom in the United States National Archive Building in Washington, D.C. It was commissioned in 1933 and completed in 1936. The mural is approximately 14 feet by 37.5 feet and depicts Thomas Jefferson of Virginia and the Committee of Five are depicted handing over their draft of the Declaration of Independence to John Hancock of Massachusetts, President of the Continental Congress, in 1776. Many other delegates of the Continental Congress look on. This event originally took place inside Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but in the mural is depicted in a sylvan setting. From left to right in the front row are depicted: 1. Robert Morris, Pennsylvania. 2. Samuel Chase, Maryland. 3. Charles Carroll, Maryland. 4. Stephen Hopkins, Rhode Island. 5. Samuel Adams, Massachusetts. 6. Thomas McKean, Delaware. 7. John Dickinson, Pennsylvania. 8. Abraham Clark, New Jersey. 9. William Ellery, Rhode Island. 10. John Witherspoon, New Jersey. 11. John Hancock, Massachusetts. 12. Benjamin Harrison, Virginia. 13. Samuel Huntington, Connecticut. 14. Thomas Jefferson, Virginia. 15. Roger Sherman, Connecticut. 16. John Adams, Massachusetts. 17. Robert R. Livingston, New York. 18. Benjamin Franklin, Pennsylvania. 19. Richard Henry Lee, Virginia. 20. Thomas Nelson, Jr., Virginia. From left to right in the back row are depicted: 21. Joseph Hewes, North Carolina. 22. Edward Rutledge, South Carolina. 23. Lyman Hall, Georgia. 24. Josiah Bartlett, New Hampshire. 25. Thomas Stone, Maryland. 26. Francis Hopkinson, New Jersey. 27. George Wythe, Virginia. 28. William Floyd, New York. More info at Archives.gov

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