Signing the declaration of their independence – Antique Wall Art
(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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Signing the declaration of their independence comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Signing the declaration of their independence
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Published in *Puck* on June 28, 1911, this engraving reproduces the signing of the Declaration of Independence for the pages of a New York satirical weekly issued by the firm Keppler & Schwarzmann. The record credits the engraving to Ehrhart, probably Samuel D. Ehrhart, an illustrator active in the early twentieth century, but that attribution comes from an old caption card and has not been verified. Magazine engravings like this let publishers reproduce a famous historical moment in quantity, so the 1776 scene reached readers as a familiar civic image more than a century after the event.
| Created / published | c1911. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Notes | Engraving signed in lower right Ehrhart (probably S.D. (Samuel D.) Ehrhart, ca. 1862-ca. 1920), copyrighted by Keppler & Schwarzmann. Illus. in: Puck, 1911 June 28, p. 6. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,131 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-173368 |
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