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Behold! a fabric now to freedom rear'd / Trenchard sculp. – Vintage Wall Art

Behold! a fabric now to freedom rear'd / Trenchard sculp., [1788] — historic print
Behold! a fabric now to freedom rear'd / Trenchard sculp., [1788]. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic print captures Behold! a fabric now to freedom rear'd / Trenchard sculp. in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Few frontispieces of the period put a temple so plainly at the center, and this etching's title line, "Behold! a fabric now to freedom rear'd," announces its subject as a structure raised to liberty. Its record tags it with peace, temples and goddesses, a classical vocabulary that American printmakers relied on after the Revolution to describe a settled republic. The plate served as the frontispiece to *The Columbian Magazine*, a Philadelphia monthly issued in 1788, the year the Constitution was ratified. The engraver's signature, "Trenchard sculp.," links it to Trenchard, one of the firms named in the magazine's imprint.

Created / published[1788]
Medium1 print : etching.
GenreAllegories 1780-1790.Periodical illustrations 1780-1790.Frontispieces 1780-1790.Etchings 1780-1790.
NotesTitle from item. Illus. in: The Columbian magazine, or, Monthly miscellany. Philadelphia : Printed for Seddon, Spotswood, Cist, and Trenchard, 1788, frontispiece. Fielding, 1707 Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1975, no. 895.
SubjectsPeace--1780-1790. Temples--1780-1790. Goddesses--1780-1790. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan927 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-122673

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