George Mason National Memorial - signage - 2012-03-15 : 無料・フリー素材/写真
George Mason National Memorial - signage - 2012-03-15 / Tim Evanson
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-継承 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Signage at the George Mason National Memorial on the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C., on March 15, 2012.George Mason IV (1725–1792) was a wealthy slave-owning Virginia planter. His great-grandfather, George Mason I, was a Royalist supporter of King Charles II and fled England for Virginia in 1651 to avoid persecution by the new Puritan rulers of Great Britain.Mason built Gunston Hall, a plantation home in which is now Mason Neck, Fairfax County, Virginia. He served at the Virginia Convention in Williamsburg in 1776, during which time he drafted the first state constitution and the first declaration of rights in the Thirteen Colonies. In 1786, he was one of three of Virginia's delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. Mason was one of the most frequent speakers during the convention, and contributed significantly to the formation of the U.S. Constitution.But he refused to sign the Constitution because it lacked a declaration of rights and because it did not abolish slavery. On December 15, 1791, the U.S. Bill of Rights -- based primarily on George Mason's 1776 Virginia Declaration of Rights -- was ratified. Mason believed in a powerful separation between church and state, and keeping the central government weak.Congress authorized the memorial in 1990, but required the foundation that now manages Gunston Hall to raise all the funds for its construction. The memorial features a 72-foot (22 m) long stone wall shaded by an arbor. The central one-third of the wall contains a grey granite bench. A one-third larger-than-life statue of Mason sits in the middle of the bench. A 100-foot wide circular reflecting pool is in front of the memorial.Sculptor Wendy Ross designed the bronze statue of Mason. Mason is depicted sitting on the bench, leaning slightly backward and to his left -- his weight on his extended left arm. In his hand is a copy of Cicero's "De Officiis." On the bench next to him are two more books: John Locke's 1689 "On Understanding" and Jean-Jacques Rousseau's 1762 "Du Contrat Social". (The latter is misspelled "Contract".) Mason's legs are crossed. To his right, his cane leans against the bench, and his tri-corner hat sits on the seat.Landscape architect Faye B. Harwell designed the original bed plantings and trees around the memorial. The groundbreaking was October 18, 2000, and the memorial dedicated on April 9, 2002. |
| 撮影日 | 2012-03-15 10:08:20 |
| 撮影者 | Tim Evanson , Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA |
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| カメラ | Canon EOS 5D Mark II , Canon |
| 露出 | 0.003 sec (1/320) |
| 開放F値 | f/11.0 |
| 焦点距離 | 77 mm |