print
- Museum number
- 1951,1006.2
- Title
- Object: L'Amérique indépendante
- Description
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Allegory on the independence of America: America, personified by a female figure wearing a feather crown, with knee resting on a turtle, crouches beside the statue of a female figure, draped, and holding a staff at the end of which is a Phrygian hat, symbol of freedom; America is surrounded by various allegorical figures and Olympian gods, Ceres, Mercury, Minerva, Prudence, and Benjamin Franklin, crowned with oak leaves, who is pointing at her with a stick; all are watching as a male figure armed with a club and wearing a helmet upon which the French rooster is perched, is about to strike the personification of Britain, who lies with Neptune, symbol of her empire, at right. after 1778
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1778-1816
- Dimensions
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Height: 487 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 352 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Independence of America 1776
- Acquisition date
- 1951
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1951,1006.2