Freedom's Wreath
Freedom's Wreath
- Description (Brief)
- 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 .
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1845
- depicted
- Corday, Charlotte
- distributor
- Pease, E. H.
- artist
- Ames, Joseph A.
- lithographer
- Hall, John H.
- place made
- United States: New York, Albany
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- image: 21 in x 14 in; 53.34 cm x 35.56 cm
- ID Number
- DL.60.2410
- catalog number
- 60.2410
- accession number
- 228146
- Credit Line
- Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
- subject
- Diplomacy
- U.S. National Government, judiciary
- U.S. National Government, legislative branch
- Patriotism and Patriotic Symbols
- Birds
- Flowers
- Reform Movements
- Blacks
- Liberty
- related event
- Texas Statehood
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- Cultural and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Art
- Peters Prints
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
