Law
 On December 27, 1894, the artist Frederick Dielman responded to a letter of December 22, 1894 from Bernard Green, the Superintendent of the Building of the Library of Congress, offering Dielman a "commission to paint, furnish and put in place two marble mosaic panels for one of the Congressional reading rooms (W. S. C.) in the new building of the Library of Congress."

Dielman accepted the commission with pleasure, saying: "I shall use every endeavor to furnish designs that I shall be glad to have on record as examples of my art, and that shall be worthy of the Building and the other decorative work within it."

Dielman's first concept for Law was accepted and was largely unchanged from his original proposal. In the final mosaic, the figure of "Innocence" was named "Truth," and the central figure of Law holds a palm branch instead of a crown of leaves as was envisioned by Dielman originally.

It is now located over the north fireplace mantle in the Congressional Reading Room, now referred to as the "Members Room" on the first storey of the southwest wing of the Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress. It measures seven and a half feet wide by three feet seven inches high.

See: The Law Library of Congress
Law Mosaic

by
Frederick Dielman