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TITLE:  Peace

CALL NUMBER:  Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1995:140, no. 236 [item] [P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-USZC4-3675 (color film copy transparency)

RIGHTS INFORMATION:  No known restrictions on publication.

SUMMARY:  In an allegory of the Treaty of Ghent, signed on Dec. 24, 1814, Britannia and America hold olive branches before an altar. Sailors, holding British and American flags, hold an uninscribed banner; through drapes and pillars a dove flies out of a triangle.

MEDIUM:  1 painting : ink and watercolor.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:  [ca. 1814(?)]

CREATOR:

Smith, John Rubens, 1775-1849, artist.

NOTES:

John Rubens Smith Collection (Library of Congress).

SUBJECTS:

Great Britain. Treaties, etc. United States,--1814 Dec. 24
United States--History--War of 1812--Peace.
Treaties--1810-1820.

FORMAT:

Allegorical paintings 1810-1820.
Watercolors Color 1810-1820.

REPOSITORY:  Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID:  (digital file from color film copy transparency) cph 3g03675 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g03675

CONTROL #:  95509666

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