The federal pillars – Historic Print
(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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The "federal pillars" are a set of three woodcuts that ran in the *Massachusetts Centinel*, a Boston newspaper, in its issues of January 16, June 11, and August 2, 1788. Their subject is the columns of a classical structure, a common emblem of the time for the states supporting a united government. The year 1788 was when the proposed U.S. Constitution moved through state ratifying conventions, and Massachusetts had approved it in February. Printed in a newspaper rather than as a standalone sheet, the designs reached readers as part of the public debate over whether the states would form a stronger national union.
| Created / published | 1788 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 3 prints : woodcut. |
| Genre | Periodical illustrations 1780-1790.Woodcuts 1780-1790. |
| Notes | Title from item. Illus. in: The Massachusetts Centinel, 1788 January 16, June 11, and August 2. 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. 894a-c. |
| Subjects | Columns--1780-1790. Newspapers--Massachusetts--Boston--1780-1790. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,005 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-122746 |
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