1To Thomas Jefferson from Giuseppe Ceracchi, 23 July 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
...a statue of Washington. Again in the United States in 1794–95, Ceracchi once more tried to solicit public funding for the monument, which in its new form portrayed Liberty as a chariot-borne goddess. Failing to obtain a congressional appropriation for the work, the sculptor commenced an ambitious subscription program, but Ceracchi, deciding that he had been misled, returned to Europe in 1795...