The American Peace Commissioners – Historic Print
![The American Peace Commissioners, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/cc/cc4f4a205e3b-L.webp)
(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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A window into the past: The American Peace Commissioners, preserved in this historic print. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The American Peace Commissioners
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This reproduction shows a diplomatic moment rather than a single sitter: the American commissioners who negotiated preliminary peace terms with Britain in Paris in November 1782. It copies an unfinished painting by Benjamin West, the American-born artist working in London, whose original is held by the Winterthur Museum in Delaware. The preliminary articles led to the Treaty of Paris in 1783, which ended the Revolutionary War, so the image records a turning point in the young nation's diplomacy. Because West never completed the canvas, the work is also worth studying for how he planned the composition.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print. |
| Subjects | Repro. of unfinished painting by Benjamin West; original at Winterthur Museum. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: Publ. Ind.; Pres (1); BI (4); U.S. Hist--1783; Peace. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,102 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-144205 |
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