"The perfect puzzle for patriots! This 1,000 piece puzzle will be sure to provoke persistence. Barry Faulkner’s large-scale murals are ideal scenes to piece together in a puzzle. The original murals are on permanent display in the Rotunda. Here is a replica to construct for yourself. 

• 26 5/8 X 19 1/4 inches

Faulkner’s 1936 rendition of the Constitutional Convention—coinciding with the opening of the National Archives—portrays the delegates standing in an ancient Roman setting rather than sitting in a Philadelphia assembly hall. The mural shows James Madison offering the final draft of the Constitution to George Washington, President of the Convention. Faulkner’s portrait of the Framers of the Constitution was not originally well received. One commentator said he “must have been reading Roman history and not American history.”