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Thomas Stone

c. 1827
Ink wash on illustration board
Image: 9.8cm x 8.2cm (3 7/8" x 3 1/4") Sheet: 26.3cm x 15.3cm (10 3/8" x 6")

Smithsonian Institution

New York, NY

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Thomas Stone (1743 – October 5, 1787) was an American planter who signed the United States Declaration of Independence as a delegate for Maryland. He later worked on the committee that formed the Articles of Confederation in 1777. He acted as President of Congress for a short time in 1784.
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Thomas Stone (1)

c. 1785
oil on canvas
67.5cm x 53.3cm (26 9/16" x 21")

Smithsonian Institution

New York, NY

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Patience Lovell Wright

oil on canvas
125cm x 101.6cm (49 3/16" x 40")

Smithsonian Institution

New York, NY

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Patience Wright, a Quaker widow from Bordentown New Jersey, looked to support her children by modeling in wax to produce lifelike figures of celebrities, exhibiting them with success in Philadelphia and New York. After a fire destroyed much of her collection, she went to England in 1772, where her artistic skill and engaging bluntness won her a...
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James Duane

ca. 1784
oil on canvas
36 x 26 3/4 in. ( 91.4 x 67.9 cm )

New York Historical Society

New York, NY

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James Duane was the son of Anthony Duane and Althea (Keteltas) Duane. He was a member of the Continental Congress and of the New York Senate, and was appointed first federal judge of the District of New York (1789-94) by George Washington. From 1784 to 1789 he was the first Federalist mayor of New York. John Trumbull used this painting as a model for...
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Charles Greenbury Griffith, Col

1785
Oil
29 x 23 in. (cm. 73.7 x 58.4)

Private collection: Mr.& Mrs. Summerfield Roberts

Dallas, TX

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William Irvine

oil on canvas
Overall: 30 1/4 x 25 in. ( 76.8 x 63.5 cm )

New York Historical Society

New York, NY

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Irvine was a delegate to the Continental Congress which met in New York in 1786-88. While there his portrait was painted by Robert Edge Pine, who had come to America from England in 1784. Lambdin, one of the popular portraitists of Philadelphia between ca. 1840 and 1870, based his portrait of Irvine on Pine's late eighteenth-century work. Irvine is...
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Mary Ball Washington

photomechanical print
no dimensions avaliable

Library of Congress

Washington, D.C.

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Mary Ball Washington (1708 – 1789) was the second wife to Augustine Washington (after the first wife, Jane Butler, died) and was the mother of George Washington.
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Congress Voting The Declaration Of Independence

engraving
no dimensions avaliable

Library of Congress

Washington, D.C.

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Print shows men gathered in the Assembly Room in the Pennsylvania State House (now called Independence Hall), Philadelphia. Completed figures include John Adams, Roger Sherman, James Wilson and Thomas Jefferson, handing a document to John Hancock, president of the Congress. Seated in the front from left to right are Samuel Adams, Robert Morris,...
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William Hunter

Print
Graphic: 11.6 x 9.4 cm / Sheet: 26.7 x 20.2 cm

The Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology

Washington, D.C.

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William Hunter FRS (23 May 1718 – 30 March 1783) was a Scottish anatomist and physician. He was a leading teacher of anatomy, and the outstanding obstetrician of his day. His guidance and training of his ultimately more famous brother, John Hunter, was also of great importance.
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