LIBERTY.
date: label: date made
content: 1800 - 1815
name: label: painter
content: unknown
label: engraver
content: Savage, Edward
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Liberty is one of the allegorical symbols of triumph over tyranny. This patriotic painting is a copy of an Edward Savage engraving, "Liberty in the form of the Goddess of Youth, Giving Support to the Bald Eagle." The later part of this inscription is missing in this version and only "Liberty" appears below the picture in the border. The painting was probably Chinese and made for export. A woman is depicted on the right and an eagle on the left. The woman is dressed in white flowing top with a red scarf and a blue skirt. She has long light brown curly hair, which is down and she wears a garland of flowers around her neck. In her left hand is a goblet. The eagle is decending from a shaft of light (the heavens perhaps, and is taking nourishment from Liberty's goblet. The background has gray, blue, and brown clouds, with an American flag topped by a Liberty cap.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The original artist was the painter-engraver Edward Savage, best known for his painting of the Washingon family at Mt Vernon.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place painting made
content: China: Canton, Canton
topic: label: depicted
content: Flags
label: depicted
content: Eagles
label: depicted
content: Liberty
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.388148
label: catalog number
content: 388148
label: accession number
content: 182022
objectType: label: Object Name
content: painting
label: Other Terms
content: Painting; Pictures; Glass; Allegorical
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paint, oil (image material)
label: Physical Description
content: gilt (image, frame material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (image material)
label: Physical Description
content: pine, white (frame material)
label: Physical Description
content: composition ornament (frame material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 27 1/2 in x 19 1/2 in x 2 in; 69.85 cm x 49.53 cm x 5.08 cm