Item Summary

The reading of the Declaration of Independence to a crowd of cheering colonists in the State House Yard, Philadelphia, on July 8, 1776.

Descriptive Information

Title
Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia.
Call Number
E Row 02/GC036/Box 01 GA 2024.04405
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcq524k352v
Publisher
[between 1879 and 1881?]
Language
English
Date Created
1879-1881
Format
Visual material
Extent
1 drawing : gouache ; 20 x 33 cm
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Medium: Gouache, Ink, Grisaille
On paper mounted on Masonite.
Signed, lower right: "A. B. Frost"
A wood engraving after this drawing was published in: Bryant, William Cullen. A popular history of the United States, volume 3. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1881-1883.
Title from published illustration.

Discovery Information

Subject
United States—Declaration of Independence
United States—History—Revolution, 1775-1783

Physical Characteristics

File Count
2

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/771d4785-f07b-490b-bf00-766dcc4a9168/manifest