Happy Independence Day!

“Writing the Declaration of Independence” ~ Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (August 18, 1863 – March 18, 1930)

Thomas Jefferson (right), Benjamin Franklin (left), and John Adams (center) meet at Jefferson’s lodgings, on the corner of Seventh and High (Market) streets in Philadelphia, to review a draft of the Declaration of Independence. (See more work by Ferris.)

 

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