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More Smithsonian Searches     Who else has...     Trumbull, John,     History -- United States     Portrait male -- Jefferson, Thomas     Portrait male -- Hancock, John     Portrait male -- Adams, John     Portrait male -- Sherman, Roger     Portrait male -- Livingston, Robert     Portrait male -- Franklin, Benjamin     Occupation -- Political     Architecture interior -- Civic     Painting

Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776, (painting). Artist:  Trumbull, John, 1756-1843, painter. Title:  Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776, (painting). Dates:  1832. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  72 1/4 x 108 in. (183.5 x 274.3 cm). Description:  History painting showing the committee that worked on the document presenting Thomas Jefferson's draft to Congress. Although the date in the title is July 4, 1776, the event depicted actually took place on June 28, 1776. Trumbull decided to depict the entire committee presenting the document rather than a single spokesperson, which would have been accurate. In the scene, Thomas Jefferson stands in the middle holding the document in front of a seated John Hancock, who was president of Congress. Jefferson is surrounded by the other members of the committee, John Adams, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston, and Benjamin Franklin. In the background are the forty-eight members of Congress. Subject:  History -- United States -- Declaration of Independence Portrait male -- Jefferson, Thomas -- Full length Portrait male -- Hancock, John -- Full length Portrait male -- Adams, John -- Full length Portrait male -- Sherman, Roger -- Full length Portrait male -- Livingston, Robert -- Full length Portrait male -- Franklin, Benjamin -- Full length Occupation -- Political Architecture interior -- Civic -- U.S. Capitol Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Wadsworth Atheneum, 600 Main Street, Hartford, Connecticut 06103 Accession Number: 1844.3 Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of Trumbull, John, until 1843. Purchased from Silliman, Benjamin, 1844. References:  Wadsworth Atheneum, 1974. Sizer, Theodore, "The works of Colonel John Trumbull, artist of the American Revolution," Rev. ed., New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967. American Art Journal, V.3, No.1, 1971. Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, "American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum," New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1996, pg. 745. Illustration:  Image on file. American Art Journal, V.3, No.1, 1971, pg. 60. Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, "American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum," New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1996, plate 131. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAP 06910065   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 06910065 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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