[Liberian senate] / drawn by Robert K. Griffin, Monrovia. – Antique Print
![[Liberian senate] / drawn by Robert K. Griffin, Monrovia., [ca. 1856] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/4b/4bd5aa6bee63-L.webp)
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[Liberian senate] / drawn by Robert K. Griffin, Monrovia. comes to life in this historic drawing, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Liberian senate] / drawn by Robert K. Griffin, Monrovia.
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This watercolor and graphite drawing shows the Liberian Senate, sketched in Monrovia around 1856, a few years after Liberia declared independence in 1847. Its maker, Robert K. Griffin, rendered the chamber's officials as a group portrait, an uncommon format for the period and a useful record of how the young republic presented its government. Because Liberia's founders were largely Black Americans who had settled there under the American Colonization Society, images like this show a legislature modeled on American forms, in a place few Americans of the time saw firsthand.
| Created / published | [ca. 1856] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : watercolor and graphite. |
| Genre | Portrait drawings 1850-1860.Group portraits 1850-1860.Watercolors Color 1850-1860. |
| Notes | Forms part of: Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibit loan 4105-L ; exhibit loan 4215-L. |
| Subjects | Government officials--Liberia--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,333 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218753 |
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