In this bust, Italian sculptor Giuseppe Ceracchi depicted founding father Alexander Hamilton as a Roman statesman with a classical profile and strong nose. While Hamilton has garnered recent attention as the star of an award-winning Broadway musical, in the late eighteenth century, his guise as a Roman statesman was a costume of a different sort. The white marble neoclassical sculpture drew connections between the new American republic, the ancient democracies of Greece, and the republican values of Rome.