Collection Highlights
The Peale Family
Date:
1773-1809
Object Number:
1867.298
Medium:
Oil on canvas
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Broadside
Object Number:
INV.2282
Date:
1830
Medium:
Silk
Dimensions:
Overall: 15 1/8 x 10 in. ( 38.4 x 25.4 cm )
Marks:
printed: above the image of the press: "Let it be impressed upon your minds, let it be instilled into your children, that the/ Liberty of the Press is the palladium of all civil, political, and religious rights."
printed: below the press: "ODE/ WRITTEN F
Description:
White silk broadside printed with an "ODE/ WRITTEN FOR THE CELEBRATION/ OF THE/ FRENCH REVOLUTION" in two columns below the image of a printing press in blue ink; red decorative border printed around the ode in red ink.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Jorge R. André, June 1929
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
