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
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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.
Extra-illustrations in James M. Beck's The Constitution of the United States (New York: George H. Doran, 1924), including portrait engravings of the presidents of the United States (George Washington through Calvin Coolidge) bound in the volume and, foldered separately, eighteen autograph manuscript letters written by the delegates to the Constitutional Convention. The delegate letters are from Pierce Butler to Robert Griffith (1819); Jonathan Dayton to Andrew Kirkpatrick (1822); Thomas FitzSimons to James Searle (1787); Benjamin Franklin to Joshua Babcock (1763); Alexander Hamilton to John Jay (1798); Jared Ingersoll to Henry Drinker (1796); John Jay to Henry Remsen Jr. (1788); Thomas Jefferson to John Page (1780); John Langdon to Meshech Weare (1783); James Madison to Samuel Johnston (1789); Robert Morris to John Nicholson (1797); William Paterson to Euphemia White Paterson (1787); Charles Pinckney to Jacob Read (1807); Charles Cotesworth Pinckney to F. D. Petit de Villers (1814); Edmund Randolph to Mann Page Jr. (1799); George Read to the trustees of the loan office for the County of Kent (1777); Roger Sherman to Benjamin Stiles (1788); and George Washington to an unidentified recipient (1787). Two of the letters were written from Philadelphia during the convention, those by William Paterson to his wife Euphemia and by George Washington
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James Montgomery Beck (1861-1936), American lawyer and politician., In English., and Number 3 of an edition of 6 copies. In binding and slipcase by Riviere and Son, with autograph manuscript inscriptions by Calvin Coolidge and Eldridge R. Johnson on front free endpaper, and autograph of James M. Beck on edition page.
