“When, in the course of human events… We hold these truths to be self-evident…”Release Date: 1975

Signed & Numbered Giclee on Canvas
Image Size: 22″ x 30″
100 Signed and numbered, issue price: $795
Painted in 1975

When the Declaration was proclaimed, the war for independence was already well under way. On the very day the congress had voted for independence, General Howe landed 10,000 redcoats on Staten Island. It was at this dark hour that a copy of the Declaration reached Washington. He promptly ordered “that the several brigades are to be drawn up this evening on their respective Parades, at six o’clock, when the Declaration of Congress…is to be read in an audible voice.” At that hour soldiers and officers took their place on the parade-ground – what is now, in all likelihood, City Hall Park in lower Manhattan – and the commander of each brigade read out the historic phrases: