Collection Highlights
American Ornithology; or The Natural History of the Birds of the United States
Date:
1880
Object Number:
LIB.Y1808.W
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Declaration of Independence
Object Number:
1941.115
Date:
ca. 1820
Medium:
Silk
Dimensions:
Overall: 28 1/4 x 21 1/8 in. ( 71.8 x 53.7 cm )
Marks:
printed: in center: "IN CONGRESS JULY 4TH 1776, / THE UNANIMOUS DECLARATION OF THE THIRTEEN UNITED STATES/ of/ AMERICA/When in the course of human events..."
printed: in garland: "JEFFERSON/ WASHINGTON/ ADAMS/"
printed: across bottom: "To the People oft
Description:
Silk lithographed broadside with a facsimile of the Declaration of Independence in a garland of the original thirteen states' seals and topped by medallion portraits of Washington, Jefferson, and Adams and flags, cornucopias, and a bald eagle; border of stars; printed in black ink on a white ground.
Gallery Label:
This broadside was engraved after an original by William Woodruff, published in Philadelphia in 1818.
Bibliography:
Collins, Herbert Ridgeway. Threads of History: Americana Recorded on Cloth, 1775 to the Present. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1979.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
