The Destruction of the Royal Statue at New York on July 9, 1776 after July 1776 After Franz Xavier Habermann Five days after the Declaration of Independence was signed in Philadelphia, a pro-revolutionary group known as the New York Sons of Liberty tore down a statue of George III standing at Broadway and Bowling Green. This imaginative recreation of that event correctly shows enslaved and free Black men performing most of the labor, but dresses them in fanciful Turkish attire—a costume often worn by Black men in European art that refers to the legality of slavery in the Ottoman Empire. The Ba
The Destruction of the Royal Statue at New York on July 9, 1776 after July 1776 After Franz Xavier Habermann Five days after the Declaration of Independence was signed in Philadelphia, a pro-revolutionary group known as the New York Sons of Liberty tore down a statue of George III standing at Broadway and Bowling Green. This imaginative recreation of that event correctly shows enslaved and free Black men performing most of the labor, but dresses them in fanciful Turkish attire—a costume often worn by Black men in European art that refers to the legality of slavery in the Ottoman Empire. The Baroque architecture is more characteristic of a large European city from that era than Anglo-Dutch colonial New York, and the actual statue showed the king on horseback. Published in Paris, the print is based on a slightly earlier version in reverse etched in Augsburg, the replication demonstrating broad European interest in the dramatic events taking place across the The Destruction of the Royal Statue at New York on July 9, 1776. After Franz Xavier Habermann (German, 1721–1796). after July 1776. Hand-colored etching and engraving. Basset (Paris). Prints
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