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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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This rare historic print captures [Thomas Jefferson, 1743, 1826, reading rough draft of Declaration of Independence to Benjamin Franklin] in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Jefferson sits with a rough draft of the Declaration of Independence and reads it aloud to Benjamin Franklin, a moment of the 1776 collaboration that the picture makes its focus. It is a halftone reproduction of a painting by Clyde Deland, printed in *Harper's Weekly* in 1897, when the halftone process had made illustrated magazines common. Deland's scene reflects the familiar account of Franklin and others revising Jefferson's text, but the meeting it depicts is the painter's imagined version rather than a documented event.

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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