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Sir William Blackstone is a bronze statue by Paul Wayland Bartlett of the English legal scholar William Blackstone. It is located at E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse, at 333 Pennsylvania Avenue in northwest Washington, D.C., in the Judiciary Square neighborhood. [1] It was installed on August 11, 1943. [2]
Sir William Blackstone (10 July 1723 – 14 February 1780) was an English jurist, justice and Tory politician most noted for his Commentaries on the Laws of England, which became the best-known description of the doctrines of the English common law. [1]
Sir Walter Raleigh Relief Sculpture: Francisco Iardella: Capitol Rotunda, above Surrender of Lord Cornwallis: Sandstone [262] Sir William Blackstone, Relief Portrait: 1950 Thomas Hudson Jones: House Chamber Marble [263] Sir Winston Churchill Bust: 2013 Oscar Nemon: Small House Rotunda Bronze [264] Slave Labor Commemorative Marker: 2012
John Bacon (1740–1799), 1 sculpture : Monument to Sir William Blackstone, All Souls College, Oxford ; Jacques de Baerze (active 1390s -after 1399), 2 sculptures : The Dijon Altarpiece (detail), Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon ; Alfonso Balzico (1825–1901), 1 sculpture : Margarete, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome
Standing portrait of Sir William Blackstone dressed in his judicial robes and long curly wig. He holds a copy of his legal publication entitled "Commentaries" in his proper left hand. Save Outdoor Sculpture, District of Columbia survey, 1993.
The title page of the first book of William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1st ed., 1765). The Commentaries on the Laws of England [1] (commonly, but informally known as Blackstone's Commentaries) are an influential 18th-century treatise on the common law of England by Sir William Blackstone, originally published by the Clarendon Press at Oxford between 1765 and 1769.
/ Govnr. of the Colony was chiefe(sic) / did treate(sic) and agree with / Mr. William Blackstone / for the purchase of his / Estate and rights in any / Lands lying within said / neck of Land called / Boston / after which purchase the / Town laid out a plan for / a trayning(sic) field which ever / since and now is used for / that purpose and for ...
As the eminent English judge Sir William Blackstone wrote in 1753: "the very being, or legal existence of the woman, is suspended during the marriage, or at least is consolidated and incorporated into that of her husband: under whose wing, protection and cover, she performs everything".