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Your Price: $ 150.00
Item Number: Mem9589 |
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Gallery wrapped canvas print on a 16 x 24 wooden frame and ready to display. The original painting was done by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, an American painter from Philadelphia who is best known for his American History Series depicting famous moments in American history. This historic scene shows the interior of a room in Philadelphia circa 1777 with seamstress Betsy Ross who is credited with sewing the first American flag having just presented an American flag to General Washington who is seated in uniform at the left of the view with a pretty young girl at his side. The central figures in this scene are Colonel George Ross, a very respected Continental Army officer from Philadelphia, and Robert Morris, one of the wealthiest men in the American colonies, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. The complete series done by Ferris was put on display at Congress Hall, in Philadelphia, and was later shown at the Smithsonian Institute, in Washington, D.C. Excellent.
Footnote: Born Elizabeth Griscom Ross, "Betsy Ross" was born in Gloucester, New Jersey on January 1, 1752, and died on January 30, 1836. |
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