First Idea of Declaration of Independence, Paris, Sept. 1786 Artist: John Trumbull (American, 1756–1843)
Artist: Thomas Jefferson (American, 1743–1826, LL.D. 1786)

1786

Prints and Drawings

By appointment, Duffy Study Room
Medium

Graphite (Trumbull) pen and brown ink (Jefferson)

Dimensions

6 15/16 × 9 1/16 in. (17.6 × 23 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. Ernest A. Bigelow

Accession Number

1926.8.1-.2

Geography

Made in United States

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Drawings

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Bibliography
  • Elizabeth Kennedy, Olivier Meslay, and Lois Marie Fink, American Artists and the Louvre, exh. cat. (Chicago: Terra Foundation for American Art, 2006), 37, ill
  • Helen A. Cooper et al., John Trumbull: The Hand and Spirit of a Painter (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1982), 79, pl. 26
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Inscriptions

In brown ink 1.1. (in Trumbull's hand?) " done by Mr. Jefferson--Paris 1786: to convey/ an Idea of the Room in which congress/ sat, at the Declaration of Independence/ on the ground floor of the old state house in/ Philadelphia--lefthanded at entrance"; along vertical fold at center: "first Idea of Declaration of Independence/ Paris Sept. 1786"

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