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Drafting the Declaration of Independence

Drafting the Declaration of Independence Engraving
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Engraving by Alonzo Chappel, 1857

17.8 cm x 13.6 cm

Published by Johnson, Fry, & Co. Publishers, New York

From the Life of George Washington, Volume 2, Part 2 (extra-illustrated edition) by Washington Irving


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This engraving depicts the Committee of Five (Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman) drafting the Declaration of Independence during the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia. The engraving was printed, with 1,253 other illustrations, in Washington Irving's five-volume, extra-illustrated Life of George Washington (1857).