Collection Highlights
Mount Rushmore National Memorial
ca. 1941
1987.16
Plaster with purplish red-brown stipple finish
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Declaration of Independence
Title
Declaration of Independence
Object name
Broadside
Date
ca. 1820
Medium
Silk
Dimensions
Overall: 28 1/4 x 21 1/8 in. ( 71.8 x 53.7 cm )
Description
Silk lithographed broadside with a facsimile of the Declaration of Independence in a garland of the original thirteen states' seals and topped by medallion portraits of Washington, Jefferson, and Adams and flags, cornucopias, and a bald eagle; border of stars; printed in black ink on a white ground.
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair
Object Number
1941.115
Marks
printed: in center: "IN CONGRESS JULY 4TH 1776, / THE UNANIMOUS DECLARATION OF THE THIRTEEN UNITED STATES/ of/ AMERICA/When in the course of human events..."
printed: in garland: "JEFFERSON/ WASHINGTON/ ADAMS/"
printed: across bottom: "To the People ofthe United States this Engraving of Declaration of Independence is most respectfully inscribed: Woodruff"
Gallery Label
This broadside was engraved after an original by William Woodruff, published in Philadelphia in 1818.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
