Declaration of Independence engraved broadside with portrait medallions – Historic Photograph Print
(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: Declaration of Independence engraved broadside with portrait medallions, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Declaration of Independence engraved broadside with portrait medallions
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Rather than a photograph of a monument or a single portrait, this piece is an engraved broadside of the Declaration of Independence, framed by portrait medallions that tie the founding document to the people associated with it. The Declaration, adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, was widely reprinted in the decades after the Revolution, and engraved versions like this one were made to hang in homes, schools, and public buildings as patriotic displays. Printmakers often combined the text with decorative vignettes so that the document looked as much like an emblem of national identity as a legal statement. Its place on a board of Washington-related images reflects how closely his name became linked with the ideals of independence.
| Original scan | 1,618 × 2,163 px · prints to 5 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 01013u |
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