The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776 1823 Asher Brown Durand American This engraving reproduces Trumbull's famous painting, now at the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven. Durand was commissioned by Trumbull to engrave the plate for $3000. Even though the engraved text below cites a date of December 20th, 1820, the work took Durand three years to complete, and it was only published until late in in part chose Durand because he was a fellow American, and in part because he charged half the price quoted by the British engraver James Heath. On October 20, 1823, Trumbull
The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776 1823 Asher Brown Durand American This engraving reproduces Trumbull's famous painting, now at the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven. Durand was commissioned by Trumbull to engrave the plate for $3000. Even though the engraved text below cites a date of December 20th, 1820, the work took Durand three years to complete, and it was only published until late in in part chose Durand because he was a fellow American, and in part because he charged half the price quoted by the British engraver James Heath. On October 20, 1823, Trumbull wrote to the Marquis de Lafayette: "I have sent tothe care of Wells, Williams & Co., bankers in Paris, who will forward it to you, a small case containing a proof impression (avant la lettre) of a print which has been engraved here from my painting of the Declaration of Independence, by a young engraver, born in this vicinity, and now only twenty-six years old. This work is wholly American, even to the paper and printing, a circumstance which renders it popular here, and will make it a curiosity to you, who knew America when she had neither painters nor engravers , nor arts of any kind, except for those of stern utility." Admiration was also forthcoming from Durand's friend, the painter Daniel Huntington, who wrote of the print: "In it he has preserved the likenesses with great fidelity, combining a free and vigorous use of the lines with a broad and rich effect of light and shade most attractive to the eye.". The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. After John Trumbull (American, Lebanon, Connecticut 1756–1843 New York). 1823. Engraving; sixth state of six. Asher Brown Durand (American, Jefferson, New Jersey 1796–1886 Maplewood, New Jersey). Prints
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