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English: The Rotunda Clock by John Flanagan. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C. In a square panel about 2.6 m on a side, a dial structure is arranged in various marbles (rich deep red, sienna, green African), overlaid with malachite, lapis lazuli, thulite, and other semiprecious stones. The dial is a sun in gilt bronze about 0.92 m in diameter, framed with a wreath and garlands of oak and laurel in bronze patina. The hands are two intertwining serpents in enameled copper. The seated figure to the left is a student reading; to the right, a student writing.
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Source Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-DIG-highsm-02121 (original digital file), uncompressed archival TIFF version (92 MB), converted to JPEG with ImageMagick 6.2.4 convert, image quality 88.
Author Sculptor is John Flanagan (1865–1952). Photographed in 2007 by Carol Highsmith (1946–), who explicitly placed the photograph in the public domain.
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