Committee of Congress Drafting the Declaration of Independence, based on a painting by Peter Frederick Rothermel from 1851. The painting depicts the so-called Committee of Five in 1776 as they drew up the American Declaration of Independence. People depicted (from left to right) : Thomas Jefferson (standing at the table), holding the draft, Roger Sherman, Benjamin Franklin (seated/standing in the background), Robert R. Livingston and John Adams (seated in the foreground) . The committee was commissioned by the Continental Congress to draft the Declaration of Independence for the thirteen colonies from Great Britain. American history, authentic, digitally restored high-resolution reproduction from a 19th-century original, exact date of the depiction unknown, historical
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Committee of Congress Drafting the Declaration of Independence, based on a painting by Peter Frederick Rothermel from 1851. The painting depicts the so-called Committee of Five in 1776 as they drew up the American Declaration of Independence. People depicted (from left to right) : Thomas Jefferson (standing at the table), holding the draft, Roger Sherman, Benjamin Franklin (seated/standing in the background), Robert R. Livingston and John Adams (seated in the foreground) . The committee was commissioned by the Continental Congress to draft the Declaration of Independence for the thirteen colonies from Great Britain. American history, authentic, digitally restored high-resolution reproduction from a 19th-century original, exact date of the depiction unknown, historical

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