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[Bust of Sir William Blackstone by Marius Azzi] – Vintage Wall Art

[Bust of Sir William Blackstone by Marius Azzi], c1917. — historic photograph
[Bust of Sir William Blackstone by Marius Azzi], c1917.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Where most images of Sir William Blackstone are paintings or engravings, this photograph records a sculpted bust of him by Marius Azzi. Blackstone, the English jurist, wrote the *Commentaries on the Laws of England*, published between 1765 and 1769, which became a standard text for lawyers in both England and the American colonies and remained widely read well into the nineteenth century. The print dates to about 1917 and carries a U.S. Copyright Office registration number, which is why a copy was deposited and now sits in the Library's collections. The image is a reminder of how much early American legal training depended on English treatises like his.

Created / publishedc1917.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1910-1920.
NotesG54090 U.S. Copyright Office.
SubjectsBlackstone, William,--Sir,--1723-1780--Statues.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,087 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-169639

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