Object Details
- associated person
- Stone, William J.
- Description
- Congressmen voted for independence on July 2, 1776, then spent two days editing Thomas Jefferson’s draft of the text. They officially declared independence on July 4. In August they signed a carefully lettered parchment copy that today is housed in the National Archives. Worried that the original signed Declaration of Independence was fading, then Secretary of State John Quincy Adams commissioned engraver William Stone to create a copper plate to produce facsimiles of the text in 1823. This facsimile was printed from Stone’s plate.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Mrs. W. J. Stone
- associated date
- 1823
- ID Number
- PL.004685
- catalog number
- 4685
- accession number
- 21086
- Object Name
- Physical Description
- engraving (overall production method/technique)
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 32 in x 28 in; 81.28 cm x 71.12 cm
- See more items in
- Political History: Political History, General History Collection
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith
- National Museum of American History
- general subject association
- independence
- National Symbols
- Record ID
- nmah_504566
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a3-0c37-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
