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[DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE]. In Congress, July 4, 1776. The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America. When in the Course of Human Events... n.p. [Hartford, Connecticut?:] Engraved by E. Huntington, n.d. [ca.1820-24].
Folio broadside (23 x 18 in.), printed on heavy wove paper, faint browning, otherwise in excellent condition.
A relatively rare, finely executed decorative facsimile of the Declaration prepared by Eleazar Huntington, a little-known Connecticut engraver and author of a treatise on calligraphic penmanship The American Penman (1824). As his loose model, Huntington followed the facsimile issued by Benjamin Owen Tyler in 1818, a design which featured a variety of decorative calligraphic styles in the heading and text body. For the signatures of the delegates at bottom, Huntington may have drawn upon Tyler's engraving (though he did not preserve Tyler's grouping of signatures as in the original) or Sanderson's Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence. The Huntington facsimile is relatively uncommon.
J. Bidwell, "American History in Image and Text," in Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, vol.98, part 2 (October 1988), no.6 (citing three copies in institutional collections).
Folio broadside (23 x 18 in.), printed on heavy wove paper, faint browning, otherwise in excellent condition.
A relatively rare, finely executed decorative facsimile of the Declaration prepared by Eleazar Huntington, a little-known Connecticut engraver and author of a treatise on calligraphic penmanship The American Penman (1824). As his loose model, Huntington followed the facsimile issued by Benjamin Owen Tyler in 1818, a design which featured a variety of decorative calligraphic styles in the heading and text body. For the signatures of the delegates at bottom, Huntington may have drawn upon Tyler's engraving (though he did not preserve Tyler's grouping of signatures as in the original) or Sanderson's Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence. The Huntington facsimile is relatively uncommon.
J. Bidwell, "American History in Image and Text," in Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, vol.98, part 2 (October 1988), no.6 (citing three copies in institutional collections).