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Similar American market textiles are in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Winterthur Museum.
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A COPPER-PLATE PRINTED COTTON DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
ENGLISH OR FRENCH, 1810-1830
The red and mustard plain woven cotton rectangle with conforming printed border of military trophies and rosettes centering an oak-leaf wreath punctuated by miniature rounds of the thirteen colonies and headed by three bust-length portrait ovals of Jefferson, Washington and Adams interspersed with cornucopia and crowned by military trophies and a spreadwing eagle, the lower corners with printed scenes of the Boston Tea Party and General John Burgoyne's surrender to General Horatio Gates at Saratoga, the whole centering the transcript and signatures of the Declaration of Independence--32¼in. high, 27¾in. wide
ENGLISH OR FRENCH, 1810-1830
The red and mustard plain woven cotton rectangle with conforming printed border of military trophies and rosettes centering an oak-leaf wreath punctuated by miniature rounds of the thirteen colonies and headed by three bust-length portrait ovals of Jefferson, Washington and Adams interspersed with cornucopia and crowned by military trophies and a spreadwing eagle, the lower corners with printed scenes of the Boston Tea Party and General John Burgoyne's surrender to General Horatio Gates at Saratoga, the whole centering the transcript and signatures of the Declaration of Independence--32¼in. high, 27¾in. wide