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Der Congress erklart die 13 vereingten Staaten von Nord-America fur independent. am 4ten July 1776. [graphic].
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Creator
Chodowiecki, Daniel, 1726-1801 etcher.
Title
Der Congress erklart die 13 vereingten Staaten von Nord-America fur independent. am 4ten July 1776. [graphic].
Title
Continental Congress declaring independence, July 4, 1776
Publisher
[Leipzig: Haude and Spener von Berlin]
Publisher
GERMANY. Leipzig. 1783
Date
[1783]
Physical Description
1 print: etching; 10 x 6 cm. (2.5 x 4 in.)
Description
Continental Congress meeting in the Pennsylvania state house, later known as Independence Hall.
Is referenced by
Cresswell, The American Revolution in Drawings and Prints 261.
Notes
Inscribed upper left corner: S. 99.
Plate 5 from Matthias Sprengel. Historisch-genalogischer Calendar oder Jahrbuch... (Leipzig: bey Haude und Spener Von Berlin, 1783). (LCP Am 1783 Spre, Log 5059.D).
Biographical / historical note
Chodowiecki was a prominent German engraver and painter who specialized in prints of historical subjects.
Subject
United States. Continental Congress
Geographic subject
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783.
Genre
Etchings -- 1780-1790.
Book illustrations -- 1780-1790.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *GC - American Revolution [P.8935.5]
Accession number
P.8935.5
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