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Robert Edge Pine - Edward Savage - [Congress voting the Declaration of Independence]

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Print shows men gathered in the Assembly Room in the Pennsylvania State House (now called Independence Hall), Philadelphia. Completed figures include John Adams, Roger Sherman, James Wilson and Thomas Jefferson, handing a document to John Hancock, president of the Congress. Seated in the front from left to right are Samuel Adams, Robert Morris, Benjamin Franklin (in a Windsor chair), Charles Carroll and Stephen Hopkins (wearing a dark hat). (Source: American Antiquarian Society catalog, 2008)

An unfinished plate, from a painting begun by Robert Edge Pine (d. 1788) and finished by Edward Savage. The plate was also left unfinished in the early 19th century and is located at the Massachusetts Historical Society. Restrikes from that plate were made late in the 19th century. (Source: American Antiquarian Society catalog, 2008)

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engravings group portraits portrait prints congress declaration independence historical photos 1800 declaration of independence benjamin franklin pennsylvania history of pennsylvania popular graphic arts robert edge pine edward savage engraving scientists founding fathers publishers book illustrations prints politics and government library of congress
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1850 - 1950
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Savage, Edward, 1761-1817, engraver
Pine, Robert Edge, 1730?-1788, artist
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Library of Congress
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engravings group portraits portrait prints congress declaration independence historical photos 1800 declaration of independence benjamin franklin pennsylvania history of pennsylvania popular graphic arts robert edge pine edward savage engraving scientists founding fathers publishers book illustrations prints politics and government library of congress