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[Thomas Jefferson, 1743, 1826, reading rough draft of Declaration of Independence to Benjamin Franklin] – Antique Wall Art

[Thomas Jefferson, 1743, 1826, reading rough draft of Declaration of Independence to Benjamin Franklin], 1897 — historic print
[Thomas Jefferson, 1743, 1826, reading rough draft of Declaration of Independence to Benjamin Franklin], 1897. Historic print from the Presidents 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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Jefferson reading his rough draft of the Declaration of Independence to Benjamin Franklin is the scene this print depicts, reproduced here as a halftone of a painting by Clyde Deland. It appeared in *Harper's Weekly* in 1897, when the halftone process allowed magazines to reproduce painted scenes in quantity. Jefferson wrote the draft in June 1776, and Congress revised it before adopting it on July 4, with Franklin among those who suggested changes. The picture shows how a late nineteenth-century illustrator imagined that moment of collaboration.

Created / published1897
Medium1 photomechanical print : halftone.
SubjectsHalftone repr. of painting by Clyde Deland. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, v. 41-2 (1897). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: PI--Works; US Hist.; PI; Pres. I.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,173 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-126632

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