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The Declaration committee – Antique Print

The Declaration committee, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1876. — antique lithograph
The Declaration committee, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1876.. Antique lithograph 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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This rare antique lithograph captures The Declaration committee in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Published in New York in 1876, the centennial year, this Currier & Ives lithograph takes as its subject the committee of five appointed in June 1776 to draft the Declaration of Independence. Its members were Thomas Jefferson, who wrote most of the text, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert R. Livingston. The firm sold large numbers of inexpensive prints of American history and national heroes, and this one is listed in a standard Currier & Ives catalog raisonné, which makes it a useful example of how the Revolution was pictured for a popular audience a century later.

Created / published[New York] : Currier & Ives, 1876.
Medium1 print : lithograph.
GenreLithographs 1870-1880.
NotesCurrier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1662.
SubjectsUnited States. Declaration of Independence--People. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,196 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-174359

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