Freedom's Wreath
date: label: date made
content: 1845
name: label: depicted
content: Corday, Charlotte
label: distributor
content: Pease, E. H.
label: artist
content: Ames, Joseph A.
label: lithographer
content: Hall, John H.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Allegorical colored print; bust view of a woman, encircled by a wreath that is wrapped with a tri-colored ribbon and incorporates a variety of patriotic symbols. The woman is Charlotte Corday, a heroine of the French Revolution. She is wearing a Liberty cap. The "Pearl of Peace" and "Level of Equality" hang from a ribbon around her neck. Below is a poem describing the wreath and a list of 25 senators and 76 congressmen who voted against the annexation of Texas on February 28, 1845, and to whom the print is dedicated .
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Albany
topic: label: Subject
content: Diplomacy
label: Subject
content: U.S. National Government, judiciary
label: Subject
content: U.S. National Government, legislative branch
label: Subject
content: Patriotism and Patriotic Symbols
label: Subject
content: Birds
label: Subject
content: Flowers
label: Subject
content: Reform Movements
label: Subject
content: Blacks
label: depicted
content: Liberty
label: related event
content: Texas Statehood
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Art
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content: Peters Prints
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content: Domestic Furnishings
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Peters, Harry T.. America on Stone
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.2410
label: catalog number
content: 60.2410
label: accession number
content: 228146
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
label: Other Terms
content: pictures; lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 21 in x 14 in; 53.34 cm x 35.56 cm