Congress Voting Independence

c. 1803, printed 1859-1906

Edward Savage, after Robert Edge Pine

Associated Names
Edward Savage

Artist, American, 1761 - 1817

Robert Edge Pine

Artist After, American, 1730 - 1788

This print shows a group of men in a paneled room. The men are dressed in waistcoats, breeches, stockings, and buckled shoes, and they almost all have white hair that curls around their ears. They all appear to have pale skin. Some are standing and gesturing towards a document on a central table, while others are seated on chairs. The room has dark panels and columns that have been shaded in thin, cross-hatched lines.

Media Options

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On View

West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G28

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    stipple engraving and engraving on heavyweight wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Mary E. Maxwell Fund)

  • Dimensions

    image: 47.94 × 65.25 cm (18 7/8 × 25 11/16 in.)
    plate: 55.25 × 69.85 cm (21 3/4 × 27 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 59.06 × 74.3 cm (23 1/4 × 29 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.19.598

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(The Old Print Shop, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1949; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1951

  • They Gave Us Freedom, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1951

1953

  • The Printmaker's America, Corcoran Gallery of Art ,Washington, DC; American Federation of Arts (Tour of Europe), 1953-1954

2016

  • Three Centuries of American Prints: from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington; National Gallery in Prague, Prague 1; Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, 2016 - 2017, no. 14.

Inscriptions

recto: none; verso: at lower left in graphite by unknown hand: Maxwell Fund 49.37

Markings

none

Wikidata ID

Q77012604

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