A representation of John Trumbull's painting of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, on silk with borders woven in royal blue and printed in brown ink. The faces of the forty-eight participants are sketched below the image and numbered with a key in the form of facsimiles of their signatures below
Description:
Title above image., In the 1820s and 1830s, Durand owned a series of printmaking firms and was active in New York., After the painting by John Trumbull or Asher B. Durand's the engraving of the Trumbull painting. Trumbull commissioned Durand to engrave his painting The Declaration of Independence in 1820. See Yale University Art Gallery notes., and Formerly part of the Cowles House inventory.
