Declaration of Independence (Q3173195)
Label from: German (de) English (en) Danish (da) Italian (it)
genre:
history painting (Q742333)
artist:
John Trumbull (Q369263)
collection:
United States Capitol (Q54109)
location:
United States Capitol (Q54109)
country of origin:
United States of America (Q30)
depicts:
Committee of Fourteen (Q5153013)
man (Q8441)
chair (Q15026)
table (Q14748)
carpet (Q163446)
paper (Q11472)
quill (Q4063215)
door (Q36794)
George Washington (Q23)
William Whipple (Q1969780)
Josiah Bartlett (Q710057)
Thomas Lynch (Q537583)
Benjamin Harrison V (Q387664)
Richard Henry Lee (Q725907)
Samuel Adams (Q212963)
George Clinton (Q201646)
William Paca (Q766814)
Samuel Chase (Q285521)
Lewis Morris (Q328181)
William Floyd (Q1381060)
Arthur Middleton (Q657569)
Thomas Heyward, Jr. (Q1399545)
Charles Carroll of Carrollton (Q466009)
George Walton (Q878512)
Stephen Hopkins (Q1399643)
William Ellery (Q567964)
George Clymer (Q708913)
Robert Morris (Q464876)
Thomas Willing (Q500967)
Benjamin Rush (Q656478)
Elbridge Gerry (Q219797)
Robert Treat Paine (Q2159017)
Abraham Clark (Q329870)
William Hooper (Q1345669)
Joseph Hewes (Q1666382)
James Wilson (Q365181)
Francis Hopkinson (Q1397375)
John Adams (Q11806)
Roger Sherman (Q354721)
Robert R. Livingston (Q283676)
Thomas Jefferson (Q11812)
Benjamin Franklin (Q34969)
Richard Stockton (Q550569)
Francis Lewis (Q223235)
John Witherspoon (Q1246390)
Samuel Huntington (Q887130)
William Williams (Q1436876)
Oliver Wolcott (Q452104)
Charles Thomson (Q1066244)
John Hancock (Q272774)
George Read (Q471303)
John Dickinson (Q878687)
Edward Rutledge (Q878666)
Thomas McKean (Q880686)
Philip Livingston (Q714967)
hat (Q80151)
instance of:
painting (Q3305213)
catalog URL: https://www.aoc.gov/art/historic-rotunda-paintings/declaration-independence
information from the United States Capitol catalog
description: This painting depicts the moment on June 28, 1776, when the first draft of the Declaration of Independence was presented to the Second Continental Congress. The document stated the principles for which the Revolutionary War was being fought and which remain fundamental to the nation. Less than a week later, on July 4, 1776, the Declaration was officially adopted, it was later signed on August 2, 1776.
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